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"I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story."
"A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome."
"In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them."
"It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones."
"I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five."
"Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way."
"You never win any games you don't play."
"There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation."
"I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A."
"I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic."
"I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games."
"I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it."
"Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game."
"Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games."
"The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans."
"We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them."
"All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are."
"If you immerse yourself too single-mindedly in your chosen art form whether it's video games, movies, comics or whatever, your work can easily become just a reflection of what others are doing in that field rather than breaking new ground."
"I was happy to be a scrub. I was proud to be a scrub. When I got older and I started talking to girls, part of my game when I was talking to them was to tell them how poor I was. I actually enjoyed that."
"The offense sells tickets and the defense wins the games."
