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LeBron James Professional Basketball Player
Games

"I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!"

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LeBron James Professional Basketball Player
Games

"Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay."

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Katie Price Model, Television personality
Games

"In my game, there are a lot of nine-hour flights here, there, and everywhere for work, so I prefer to take a shorter plane journey somewhere hot - just for fun."

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Games

"My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death."

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Games

"Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Games

"Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Games

"Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments."

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
Games

"I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch."

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
Games

"I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated."

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Lennox Lewis Professional Boxer
Games

"Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Games

"War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Games

"It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for."

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