J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
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I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.
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Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
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Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
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Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
