Kim Swift Quotes
One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!
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It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.
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One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'
