J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

J. Michael Straczynski

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• I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

  

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• From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

  

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• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  

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• Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.

  

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• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

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• I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.

  

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• Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

  

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• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

  

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• 2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.

  

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• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

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• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

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• I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.

  

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• I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

  

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• As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dance