J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.
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If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
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I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
