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Quotes by Screenwriter
"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,
11
"Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts."
11
"Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt."
11
"There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him."
11
"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."
11
"I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas."
11
"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."
11
"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."
10
"The weaker the country, the stronger the smile."
10
"Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man."
10
"If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them."
10
"I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation."
10
"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."
9
"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention."
9
"The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons."
9
"It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else."
9
"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."
9
"She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer."
9
"I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like."
9
"You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow."
9
"Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love."
8
"The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs."
8
"Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence."
8
"Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse."
7
"I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"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?"
6
"You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here."
6
"It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins."
6
"Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive."
6
"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."
6
"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."
6
"So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives."
6
"I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in."
5
"I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway."
5
"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night."
4
"I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first."
4
"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."
4
"If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?"
4
"When a girl's under 21, she's protected by law. When she's over 65, she's protected by nature. Anywhere in between she's fair game."
3
"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."
3
"A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure."
3
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