J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
