Games Quotes - Page 31

• I'm looking for films that can resonate and hopefully have some level of critical importance but also have commercial viability and can put butts in seats. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. And if you can find that perfect balance, then that's the sweet spot.

  Will Packer

  Sweet, Names, Perfect

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Basketball, Baseball, Sleep

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I want you to come watch my game, not the uniforms.

  Brittney Griner

  Watches, Want, Uniforms

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.

  Steve Gaynor

  Break Even, Parent, Marketing

  "Why This Indie Game Studio Chose a Feminist Drama Over Guns and Zombies". Interview with Matt Connolly, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2013.

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• A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make back an investment of tens of millions of dollars.

  Steve Gaynor

  Player, Dollars, Able

  "Why This Indie Game Studio Chose a Feminist Drama Over Guns and Zombies". Interview with Matt Connolly, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2013.

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• The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.

  Mark McCormack

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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• Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

  Bill Gates

  People, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

  Julio Cortazar

  Literature

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• Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.

  Roger Angell

  Baseball, Hands, Sensual

  Roger Angell (2013). “Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Answers, Already Won

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• The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.

  Bo Jackson

  Firsts, Never Forget, Forget

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• If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

  Peter McWilliams

  Giving, Screw Ups, Enough

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• ...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.

  Hermann Hesse

  Musical, Trying, Festivals

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• You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Light, Giving

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• Games are all about taking risks.

  James Altucher

  Risk, Taking Risks

  "How To Master The Game Of Life" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. October 6, 2014.

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• I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.

  David Seaman

  Mean, Turkeys, Tunisia

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• To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.

  Richard Carrier

  Errors, People, Trying

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• A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Serious, Problem

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• This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Winning, Simple

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)”, p.11, Random House

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• If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many learn difficult video games with no professional teaching at all!

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Teaching, Opportunity

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• I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission), I'm not ASADA. I'm a football coach trying to coach a game.

  James Hird

  Football, Trying, Crime

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• People think this is all about the top players hitting tenins balls and they talk about technique and strategy and how important that is. But they don't understand the essence of competition. This is one-on-one, two players out there fighting each other with everything they have, trying to bring the best out of themselves. And the difference at this level of the game is all in the head and in the heart.

  John Newcombe

  Heart, Fighting, Player

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• Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

  Arthur Ashe

  Beautiful, Victory, Matter

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• I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.

  Garry Kasparov

  Beautiful, Play, Trying

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• I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Chess, Accepted

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