There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.
Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L. A. to do more television and get into show business.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
You could make a very focused exploration game, that was about player creativity and exploration. But then it wouldn't have these very meticulous scientific kinds of puzzles in it, that Braid has. And so, it was just about picking something and understanding what it was that was chosen, and sticking to it, ruthlessly.
You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing. ' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!
Thoughts become things