J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I want every Grammy.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I want to get off with the screenwriting.
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What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
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I'm pleased because as a comic I live on the fringes of an extreme society. What could be better than satirizing this insanity. People are on edge, desperate and afraid. Those who aren't are soulless or living in extreme denial, locked in a magic kingdom of their own making. As a comic I get to poke at people's bubbles! Of course I'm pleased. I get to be their mouthpiece for their rage and fear! Tremendous fun.
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Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
