J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

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• The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
• What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.
• My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
• I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000…
• I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.
• Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.
• I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.
• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need…
• There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.
• Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our…
• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.
• There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we…
• A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
• When the Seinfeld show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. Thor is…
• The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.
• It was the dawn of the third age of mankind...
• I have friends in different parts of the world, and they'll all go online at the same time and all pull up a movie and…
• You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.
• On most TV shows, you work on a set and do some location.
• Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

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