J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I love my sleep.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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I've never been on a date.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.
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I've been around him 10 years with him. You never ever know what he's going to so you can expect anything.
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I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
