Ralph Baer Quotes
For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
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I don't want to be 70 years old jumping around onstage.
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I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.
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For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
