J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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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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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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A riot is the language of the unheard.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
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In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.
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I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
