Jane McGonigal Quotes
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.
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It's time to start believing - Oh yes.Believing who you are: You are a shining star.
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
