Cory Arcangel Quotes
My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.
Quotes to Explore
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.
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I like to play by my own rules.
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
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I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.
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I think the biggest adjustment I've made before coming here was going from High A to Double A. I was going in facing pitchers who had more experience and knew how to throw all their stuff for strikes and in hitter's counts, things like that.
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Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning.
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When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
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It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.
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Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.
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My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.
