Gabe Newell Quotes
Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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Everything I say is true.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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I grew up being absolutely in love with Tom Hanks. I remember, all the kids had Brad Pitt plastered all over their textbooks, and then I had Tom Hanks plastered over mine.
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I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.
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When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
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You try to make a film, and you have to come up with the money. You need a big crew; you need to ask people for favors and get permission. If you have an idea for a song, you can pretty much go into your basement with your band mates and do it.
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I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
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Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
