J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
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I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
