- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Game Quotes
From the golf course to the chessboard.
This page uses "game" loosely — from a famously dismissive take on golf as a waste of effort, to praise for the creativity found in game development compared with feature filmmaking. If gaming culture specifically interests you, see Games quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Each Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried to lose weight two or three times, and every time, my golf game was horrible.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If YouTube has plenty of premium content, people will watch that in the same way they watch 'Game of Thrones' or 'Breaking Bad.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People, on their bucket lists, are saying, 'I want to see a game at Rupp Arena.' Magic Johnson will call and say, 'I want to come to the game tonight. I want to see John Wall or Anthony Davis or Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.' It's become fashionable to be seen here, because people want to be seen and associated with success.
- Nov 07, 2020