J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.
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And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, 'If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here.' In the air all directions lead everywhere.
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A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.
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I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
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I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
