J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

J. Michael Straczynski

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I'm the first person in my family to go to college.

Jessica Chastain

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When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

Meryl Streep

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

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Music is like a medicine.

Stromae

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I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

Rupert Penry-Jones

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I see the world from the perspective of a 5'8" person, not someone who is 6'4". so naturally, I'm going to choose certain lens heights over and again... Sometimes nature makes choices for you.

Michael Mann

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Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford

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The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.

Alicia Garza

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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4 in the morning.

William Klein

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