Warren Spector Quotes
On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Elves are cool, man.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.
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Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.
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You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.
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My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
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I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
