Warren Spector Quotes
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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Music is my release.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Don't limit your audience.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.
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I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.
