Jesse Schell Quotes
We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
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'Your nephew plays.' 'My nephew and his friends practice.' 'He would do better to look to his soul.' 'He has no soul, he's a soldier.'
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Golf is a game with morals. There's always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That's why it's a gentleman's game.
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I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.
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Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.
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We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?
