J. Michael Straczynski Quotes - Page 3

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• There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.

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  Kids, Age, Sidekicks

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• Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Way, Half, Forget

  Source: collider.com

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• What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.

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  Teaching, Priorities, Challenges

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• Stun settings are for people who can't commit.

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  People, Commit, Settings

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• It is imperative for many branches of fundamentalist christianity to constantly feel conspired against...so they cite humanist manifestos and theosophical societies and concoct these vast and dark organizations that exist nowhere but in the minds of those who conceive these theories.

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  Dark, Organization, Mind

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• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

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  Growing Up, Responsibility, Views

  "J. Michael Straczynski’s Superman: Outsider with a vulnerable heart". Interview with Jevon Phillips, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 5, 2012.

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• On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

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  Thinking, Degrees, Answers

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• 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 about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Character, Destiny, Said

  "Holding the Hammer: JMS Talks Thor". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. October 17, 2008.

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• There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.

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  Nice, Appreciate, Guy

  "J. Michael Straczynski Talks Studio JMS, Joe’s Comics, EPIDEMIC, VLAD DRACULA, His Desire To Work With Neil Gaiman, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 28, 2012.

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• If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.

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  Dream, Giving Up, Passion

  "J. Michael Stracyznski takes over Superman and Wonder Woman" by Glenn Hauman, www.comicmix.com. March 8, 2010.

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• Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

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  Careers, Entertainment, Middle

  "JMS Gives New BEFORE WATCHMEN Details, Defends Project". Interview with Vaneta Rogers, www.newsarama.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

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  Freak, Control Freak

  "J. Michael Straczynski Talks Studio JMS, Joe’s Comics, EPIDEMIC, VLAD DRACULA, His Desire To Work With Neil Gaiman, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 28, 2012.

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• If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

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  War, People, Sacred

  "Silver Surfer : Requiem". Book by J. Michael Straczynski, 2007.

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• I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

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  Mediums, Written

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• I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

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  Fans, Fiction, Stories

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• I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

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  Doors, Mind, Revolving Doors

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• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

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  Cartoon, Adults, Grew Up

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• I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

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  Jobs, Writing, World

  "J. Michael Straczynski Talks Studio JMS, Joe’s Comics, EPIDEMIC, VLAD DRACULA, His Desire To Work With Neil Gaiman, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 28, 2012.

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• My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

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  Philosophy, Want, Rooms

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• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

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  Real, Space, Baptism

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. September 5, 2000.

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• The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.

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  Stars, War, Sky

  "Babylon 5: The Gathering". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

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  Flower, Writing, Want

  "'Before Watchmens's' J. Michael Straczynski and Len Wein On Even More Watchmen?". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

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  Years, Horizon, Who We Are

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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 and lots of other heroes.

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  Hero, Men, People

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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 about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.

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  Stars, Sorry, Character

  "Re: B5 rips off Trek Again! (T". Google Groups, rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5, groups.google.com. November 10, 1995.

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