Barton Gellman Quotes
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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I graduated college and moved back home, started helping my dad, did landscaping for a living.
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'Christy' is worth staying out of college for because I believe in the show. I wouldn't stay out of college for many other shows.
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We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.
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The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can't stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.
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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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I am proud to be a woman in the Senate.
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But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
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Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game.
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I'm grateful and enjoying the ride.
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America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
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When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.
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We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.
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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
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So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.
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The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
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you just took on five million years of evolution again
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I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!
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The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
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NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
