Jenova Chen Quotes

What I find the most interesting about games is the feeling of accomplishment. I think this is an emotion that cinema can't do and books can't do. You feel like you've personally accomplished something. You feel you get better at something.

Jenova Chen

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• Interesting
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• This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Feeling
  • Know
  • Me

• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Like
  • Friendship

• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
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  • Know

• I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
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• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Feeling
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• I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Feeling
  • Know
  • Always

• There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Deep

• It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Artists

• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.

  

  Rain
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • Rainy

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Children
  • Feeling
  • Wanted

• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Interesting
  • Exploring

• In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Way
  • Interesting

• Since pre-Emancipation, black 'females' have had to fight for the whites-only privilege of being deemed 'ladies': cultured, educated, sexually desirable in a socially respected way. Michelle Obama has managed to get all this without yielding her right to be smart and strong-willed.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Smart

• But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Men

• I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

  

  Amy Bloom

• Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.

  

  Celinda Lake
  • Political
  • Helping
  • Sick

• What I find the most interesting about games is the feeling of accomplishment. I think this is an emotion that cinema can't do and books can't do. You feel like you've personally accomplished something. You feel you get better at something.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Feeling
  • Interesting
  • Accomplishment