Warren Spector Quotes
I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
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When I'm home, I'm relaxed.
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I think part of being an actor is staying private.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
