Marc Laidlaw Quotes
There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
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Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.
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Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.
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Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!
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There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.
