Jenova Chen Quotes
I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a video game that people around the globe can enjoy and relate to, I can't draw things deeply rooted in the local culture that I'm not familiar with. That's why we are not doing games about football or samurai.
Quotes to Explore
-
In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
-
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
-
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
-
Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
-
IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
-
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
-
People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
-
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
-
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
-
We are in favor of greater free markets.
-
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
-
I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
-
If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
-
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
-
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
-
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
-
Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
-
The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
-
If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.
-
It certainly lit our fire a little bit. It certainly made us appreciate what we have.
-
I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should.
-
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
-
We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.
-
I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a video game that people around the globe can enjoy and relate to, I can't draw things deeply rooted in the local culture that I'm not familiar with. That's why we are not doing games about football or samurai.
