J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

J. Michael Straczynski

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• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

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• Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.

  

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• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
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• But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
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• Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Car
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  • Outfit

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

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• Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
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• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
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  • Behavior

• Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

  

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• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

  

  Patricia McBride
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• Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

  

  Cynthia Breazeal
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• The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

  

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• I'm actually a pretty shy person in real life with new people.

  

  Allison Janney
  • People
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• One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

  

  Rene Dubos
  • Health
  • Wonder
  • Pretense

• If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Quiet
  • Shy