Ian Bogost Quotes
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.
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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.
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I love to be in Hawaii - everything very natural, and my style reflects that.
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If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
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I believe it is peace in our time.
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When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.
