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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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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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 thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.
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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
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We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.
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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.
