Ian Bogost Quotes
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
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I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't even in the alphabet, they're just numbers - clinical trials. But I bet if you added all those up, it would have to be like 60- or 70-something. I've had 23 bone marrow aspirations. Having one isn't fun and I've had 23. So that's been tough.
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Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.
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I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
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I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.
