Chris Avellone Quotes
The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.
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Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.
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But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
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It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.
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Whenever you anticipate something - like, "it's my highly anticipated whatever" - you are probably going to be disappointed. I wish we could all Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ourselves every time we went to the movies and not know anything about anyone.
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The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.
