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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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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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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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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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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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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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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Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.
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Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.
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I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know how it is with you, but when I finish something, even when I'm pleased with the results, it never quite matches the shimmering vision that was out ahead of me as I wrote.
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I loved playing Sasha. You don't have this on every job, or every show or movie, but every day was really an adventure, character wise, for what I got to do at that age.
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I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
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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.
