Ken Levine (Kenneth M. Levine) Quotes
If I could still get paid, I would make games and never ship them. I don't enjoy shipping games. I think it's kind of dreadful.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
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I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.
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If I could still get paid, I would make games and never ship them. I don't enjoy shipping games. I think it's kind of dreadful.
