"There's a rule of writing: if everything is……" — J. Michael Straczynski
"There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast."
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129 Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski
J. Michael Straczynski has 129 quotes on this site.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only…
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My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell…
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I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written…
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I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over…
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Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man…
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I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in…
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in…
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There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how…
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Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we…
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.
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There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost…
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More Contrast Quotes
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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which…
— Maurice Baring
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what…
— Amy Carmichael
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
— John O'Donohue
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most…
— Mark Twain
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The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and…
— G. Stanley Hall
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The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being…
— Carol Bellamy
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical…
— Frances M. Young
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable…
— Philip Zimbardo
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The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
— Carl Jung
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