Eric Nylund Quotes
I don't look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for 'Halo', which for me, transcends being just a great video game. It's evolving into a whole new mythology.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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We're like a really nice drink. We help people get through the day-we make life a little sunnier. I don't think we have any profound effect. If anybody has had a profound effect, it's The Beatles, and their effect is still minimal. There are things in the world way more important than music. Family is 50 times more important than music.
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I overdramatize.
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A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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I don't look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for 'Halo', which for me, transcends being just a great video game. It's evolving into a whole new mythology.
