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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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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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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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-
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The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.
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I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
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We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
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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.'
