J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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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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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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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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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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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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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
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Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does.
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I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
