Jane McGonigal Quotes
I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I'm not exploring. I’m in. And this is the beginning of a marathon
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I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite different from the silence that grows palpable when one has reached the end of Oedipus at Colonus. The most terrible thing that has happened to people today, he says, is that they have grown frightened of silence. Instead of seeking it as a friend and as a source of renewal they now try in every way they can to shut it out... the fear of silence is the fear of loneliness, he says, and the fear of loneliness is the fear of silence. People fear silence, he says, because they have lost the ability to trust the world to bring about renewal. Silence for them means only the recognition that they have been abandoned... How can people find the strength to be happy if they are so terrified of silence?
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If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.
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I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.
