J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I know I look super young.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people.
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Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.
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My mom. Growing up with her, she always taught us to say whatever. Like, 'You think something, say it. Don't bite your tongue for people.' I think there's a fine line with that, but at the same time, I'm a firm believer in speaking your mind.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
