Jane McGonigal Quotes
I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
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I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.
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I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'
