J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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'Newton' has given a lot to our cinema.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.
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For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
