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Quotes by Screenwriter
"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."
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"Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet."
14
"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."
14
"Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?"
12
"I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork."
12
"You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors."
11
"Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom."
11
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
10
"The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror."
10
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."
10
"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."
10
"Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive."
10
"Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
10
"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."
10
"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."
10
"After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm."
10
"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors."
9
"The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want."
9
"If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"
8
"We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing."
8
"Forgive your enemies, but first get even."
8
"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."
7
"I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can."
7
"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,
7
"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."
7
"Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other."
Law,
7
"As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards just a bum."
7
"Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions."
7
"Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness."
7
"A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face."
7
"One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life."
7
"Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn."
7
"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
7
"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."
6
"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
6
"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention."
6
"What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing."
6
"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."
6
"Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion."
6
"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."
6
"You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love."
6
"Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man."
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