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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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
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There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.
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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.
