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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Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.
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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
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What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.
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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.
