Chris Crawford Quotes
I did a game at Atari Research called 'Excalibur' about the Arthurian legends. At the time, it was very, very complicated, very involved and so forth and actually still looks better than some of the modern games in terms of its richness and involvement.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.
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I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.
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I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.
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I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.
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I did a game at Atari Research called 'Excalibur' about the Arthurian legends. At the time, it was very, very complicated, very involved and so forth and actually still looks better than some of the modern games in terms of its richness and involvement.
