J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
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My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.
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Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National's role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.
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I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
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My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
