Jane McGonigal Quotes
If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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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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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I try to let my game speak for itself.
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The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.
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During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.
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Well, I'm just quoting you when you Donald Trump were asked about a potential nuclear competition in Asia, you said, you know, go ahead, enjoy yourselves, folks.
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If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.
