J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Everything can be satirized.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
