J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

J. Michael Straczynski

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• I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Music
  • Always
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Today
  • Energy

• You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Leave
  • Lead

• 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.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Health care
  • Nurse

• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• 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!

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • City
  • Nuclear Weapons

• 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.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Quality
  • Will

• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Real
  • Story
  • Where

• 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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
  • Job
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Together
  • Career
  • Words

• It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Me

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • inspirational
  • Measure
  • Who

• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing
  • Faith
  • Grammar

• 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.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Ignorant

• The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Black
  • Red
  • Blue

• And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Thinking
  • Hippie

• Difficulty is our most reliable narrative engine.

  

  Leslie Jamison

• 'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Life
  • Song
  • Words

• Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks