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J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

J. Michael Straczynski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 17, 1954

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Science Religion Motivation Questions

Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.

Life Time Day Fun Have Fun Doing

Not a lot of people know I wrote the lyrics for the Arsenal club song, 'Good Old Arsenal'. We had a competition on ITV for it, and none of the entries were any good, so I approached their manager, Bertie Mee, and asked him if he would let me have a stab. He did, and within a few weeks they were singing it at Wembley on the way to the 1971 double.

Good Competition People Singing Song

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

Joel C. Rosenberg

World Living Brink Apocalypse Asleep

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

Child Me Self America Born Strange

It would be too glib, not a hundred per cent true, to say that my father's career as a banker was what made me a writer. But it would be slightly true, and it was certainly the case that his work as a banker made me see that the trade-offs people make between their work and their lives are often badly skewed.

John Lanchester

Work Father People Me Career True

I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.

New York Forest House Down New Know

I think the more I learn, the more I see, and what you see makes your eyes and talent evolve.

Eyes Talent Think Learn You See

I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy until I pulled this script out: 'Lucifer.' I have to say, within about three or four pages, I thought it was hilarious; I laughed out loud a couple of times and knew this is the one that I wanted to do.

Reading Thought Three Say Nothing

Unlike Obama and the Senate Democrats, I respect the will of Wisconsin's voters.

Respect Will Democrats Wisconsin

I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.

Child Lesson Kind Run Write Used

Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.

Competition Globalization Will Two

Being is like pretending.

Pretending Being Like

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