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Quotes by Screenwriter
"As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards just a bum."
"Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children?"
"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night."
"Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here."
"I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation."
"The history of medicine is the history of the unusual."
"Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence."
"I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in."
"I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster."
"It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time."
"My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed."
"There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember."
Time,
"You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love."
"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention."
"The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters."
"Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38."
"Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects."
"My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned."
"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair."
"I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business."
"Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion."
"One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge."
"That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did."
"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."
"We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the "writing style" of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed."
"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."
"Forgive your enemies, but first get even."
"It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else."
"It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins."
"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."
"The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs."
"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years."
"The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want."
"I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas."
"Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions."
"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors."
"I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway."
"If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?"
"I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork."
"What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing."
"I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough."
"I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot."
"Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness."
"A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure."
"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
"I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first."
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