Ed Greenwood Quotes
Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.
Quotes to Explore
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
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I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's a part of me that would like to go back and relish those moments when you could sit down and just... read a book.
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We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision.
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Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.
