Jane McGonigal Quotes
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don't sit around.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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I'm Cancer and Gemini cusp, so I read both and pick the one I like best. I read horoscopes but claim not to believe any of it.
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If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.
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I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
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Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don't sit around.
