Kim Swift Quotes
I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
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BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.
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People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
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O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!
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Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.
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Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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The prediction of my disruption theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. They've launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It's not truly disruptive. History speaks pretty loudly on that, that the probability of success is going to be limited.
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When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.
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I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'
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If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.
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Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. 'You cannot catch three fish with two hands,' the little man often said.
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Faith is stronger than so-called reality.
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I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.
