Ken Levine (Kenneth M. Levine) Quotes
It changed my life in terms of what it did to my health, and what it did to my view of making games, and my relationships with people.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
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The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
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The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!
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My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.
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Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
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My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.
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To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
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I do believe that if models look like children, then they shouldn't be sexualised.
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If you're in a ditch, and you're looking down, you can see where you're going but you can't see the way out.
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If anyone was in my shoes and they were offered what I was offered, they wouldn't turn it down either.
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Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
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Nobody's made an impact like Raina Telgemeier or Kate Beaton. I think that indie creators, people making webcomics and graphic novels, are the ones to watch.
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My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.
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It changed my life in terms of what it did to my health, and what it did to my view of making games, and my relationships with people.
