Videogame Quotes

• When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

  Wanda Sykes

  Unique, Giving, Caves

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• A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Differences, World, Half Life

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• When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h*** am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

  J.K. Simmons

  Men, Who I Am, Giving

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• What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Keeping Secrets, Littles

  ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”

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• What doesn't kill you makes you smaller

  Mario

  Funny, Humorous, Character

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• Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

  John Marston

  Strong, Taken, Men

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• Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Format

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• I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.

  Hiroshi Yamauchi

  Cutting, Epic, Technology

  "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.

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• What I created got abominated.

  Ralph H. Baer

  Creating, Criticism, Creation

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• As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Playing Games, Role Playing

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Looks

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.

  Cliff Bleszinski

  Pirate, Suffering, Video

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• When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

  Claudio Reyna

  Soccer, Sports, Mirrors

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• I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

  Andy Serkis

  Film, Lord, Projects

  "Andy Serkis plays dual role in "Hobbit" - Gollum and director". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Fans, Wells

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• I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Blue, Acting, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Order, Shoes

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Cousin, Children, Kids

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• I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Movie, Games, People

  "Beyond the shoot-em-up: how gaming got killer stories" by Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2014.

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• Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

  Ernest Cline

  Being Human, Bearable, Humans

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• Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.

  Patton Oswalt

  Past, Ipods, Superhero

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• The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of video games. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.

  Christian Slater

  Fun, Dark, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Football, Heart

  Interview with Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 17, 2002.

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• Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.

  Rick Remender

  Independent, Ebay, Oakland

  Source: www.ign.com

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• More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

  Andy Serkis

  Kids, Space, Playing Roles

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