J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

J. Michael Straczynski

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Style
  • Driving
  • Aggressive

• We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Hard Work

• I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • School
  • Small
  • Law

• The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Future
  • Humanity

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• I've just always been a bit of a dork.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Just
  • Dork

• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Possible

• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Game
  • Favorite
  • Pyramid

• I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Boy
  • Head
  • Group

• My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Real
  • Always
  • Heroes

• There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • Space

• Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Afraid

• True friends stab you in the front.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • True
  • Front

• No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Up
  • Book
  • Me

• With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Hand

• Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

  

  Christopher Marlowe
  • King
  • Brave

• There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Reality
  • Way
  • You

• There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Law
  • Fighting
  • Judge

• I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Mind
  • Door