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Tim Schafer Quotes

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: July 26, 1967

Topics

Creative People Safe Leave Up Well

I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.

Internet You Know Talk Late-Night

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

Life Moment Grief Death Process You

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

Help DNA Our Protagonist Identifying

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'

Future I Am Think Look Back Try

A lot of artists are afraid to be themselves and afraid to tell people what it really is.

People Afraid Tell Artists Really

You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he's great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.

Great Culture Day Me Performance

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.

You Person Know Study Elevator Did

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Love Passion Heart Beautiful Poetry

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Christopher Hitchens

Soul Mind Literature Metaphor Since

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Music People Think Always Because

Leave history to historians.

History Leave Historians

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

Tiffani Thiessen

Stress Now More Than Did Teenager

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