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Related JACK MCBRAYER DALLAS ROBERTS NOLAN BUSHNELL I did a game at Atari Research called 'Excalibur' about the Arthurian legends. At the time, ... CHRIS CRAWFORD I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenage... KIM GORDON My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ... CATHERINE TATE Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play 'Space Invaders.' Then I fell in lov... AMBER ROSE EMMA STONE RACHEL DRATCH I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worrie... DAVID CRANE I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. ERNEST CLINE I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tap... PAUL REUBENS NOLAN BUSHNELL All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credi... JON TENNEY I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as ... MAMIE GUMMER I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never re... GARRET DILLAHUNT VIGGO MORTENSEN When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the... PRINCESS EUGENIE OF YORK I am not a gamer. Not since the days of Atari. PATRICK FISCHLER I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really. ADAM PEATY AARON KOBLIN ORLANDO BLOOM ANNIE LENNOX I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So ... DUNCAN JONES I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines. ROGER AVARY HELEN HUNT At the end of the day, I think that I'm making music for me as that 12-year-old kid in front of ... DANNY BROWN BAILEY CHASE OLGA KURYLENKO My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature. DAKOTA FANNING Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sa... KACEY MUSGRAVES TOM FRESTON I was 12 years fittin' to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. I've been r... BIRDMAN The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting.... CHRISTIAN SLATER Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and ... CARY FUKUNAGA As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of somethin... JEAN PIGOZZI PENELOPE CRUZ NOLAN BUSHNELL NOLAN BUSHNELL I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20... MISTY COPELAND TERRY WOGAN ED ASNER I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artis... MIKE SHINODA I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wi... ALESSANDRO NIVOLA JOHN COLTRANE GEORGE CLOONEY You know, I was a kid when I went into 'Coronation Street' and I had an amazing time. I got ... RICHARD FLEESHMAN Atari? CARL PAVANO Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old... KEN BRUEN My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the m... ALANNA UBACH TONY BENNETT I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I w... CALLAN MCAULIFFE I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just... ESTELLA WARREN LINDSEY STIRLING I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid... TORY LANEZ SUHEIR HAMMAD Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I... DAVID MARKSON VIN SCULLY ELIZA DUSHKU KIRSTEN DUNST I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and ever... JON FISHMAN MIKE WEIR BILL MUMY GARRETT HEDLUND LINDA FIORENTINO I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; ... R. L. STINE My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventee... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching my... STEVEN SINOFSKY I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that defi... ALEXANDRA CHANDO It was so bizarre. I will admit however that my 14-year-old son, Byron, really bugged me about findi... DAVID HUME KENNERLY As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life a... GARRET DILLAHUNT HARRY CONNICK, JR. CAITLYN JENNER Take-Two is cheap and Atari is really cheap. Investors mistakenly look at the group as either being ... MICHAEL PACHTER I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really... POWERS BOOTHE NOLAN BUSHNELL I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that... DANNY DYER SONAM KAPOOR EMMA DONOGHUE Growing up in Florida, it rained a lot, so we spent a lot of time indoors. I used to love Frogger. I... JENNIFER SKY QUEEN LATIFAH AMY WINEHOUSE CHRISTINE KEELER I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen the... TONY FADELL
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I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. ERNEST CLINE My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and D... ERNEST CLINE I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect wit... ERNEST CLINE I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '... ERNEST CLINE I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do a... ERNEST CLINE That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up ... ERNEST CLINE You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever. ERNEST CLINE At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot. ERNEST CLINE Even humanity's lack of concern for its rampant overpopulation problem now made a terrible kind of s... ERNEST CLINE People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up. ERNEST CLINE In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyri... ERNEST CLINE Shit!" I heard Diehl shout over the comm. "I just lost my gorram shields because I'm already out of ... ERNEST CLINE I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at... ERNEST CLINE I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common w... ERNEST CLINE I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really k... ERNEST CLINE I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly ... ERNEST CLINE I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.' ERNEST CLINE I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydre... ERNEST CLINE I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd ne... ERNEST CLINE Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any b... ERNEST CLINE Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I... ERNEST CLINE I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care. ERNEST CLINE Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right. PATSY CLINE I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half. PATSY CLINE I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore. PATSY CLINE My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards! PATSY CLINE Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy. PATSY CLINE I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support. PATSY CLINE I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog. PATSY CLINE I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and ... PATSY CLINE In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from ... PATSY CLINE I can't miss a night's work and let my public down. PATSY CLINE I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it. PATSY CLINE I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker. PATSY CLINE Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for ... PATSY CLINE Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry. PATSY CLINE The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music. PATSY CLINE I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to ma... PATSY CLINE I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have ... PATSY CLINE You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Tak... PATSY CLINE I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I ... PATSY CLINE If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anythin... PATSY CLINE I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye. PATSY CLINE It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else. PATSY CLINE I've become a captive of my own ambitions. PATSY CLINE I'm gonna be something one of these days. PATSY CLINE EMMA CLINE Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I gues... PATSY CLINE Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who w... PATSY CLINE We just wouldn't let anybody beat us is all...we were an exceptional group. BILL CLINE It is probably the single most significant step in the history of the exchange. BILL CLINE Larger hubs of buyers and sellers combined together make it easier for them to find one another. BILL CLINE It may just simply not be cost-effective to maintain the physical trading floor. BILL CLINE I think they have a limited amount of room to raise prices and fees. There's only so much they can d... BILL CLINE They are going to turn a lot of attention to a growth strategy ... striving to meet the investor gro... BILL CLINE EMMA CLINE EMMA CLINE EMMA CLINE It's always good for Scots to get together. There will be a toast to the queen and a toast to the pr... DALE CLINE It shows a visual, graphic alternative to thirsty turf grass. ROB CLINE The transaction level is a substantially higher level of abstraction than standard behavioral level,... BRETT CLINE You couldn't get into that gym...when the B game started that place was packed. BILL CLINE EMMA CLINE EMMA CLINE We're very east Texas people, PATSY CLINE we're choosy who we work with. PATSY CLINE "Here's to those who wish us well and those who don't can go to hell." - Patsy Cline PATSY CLINE You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've t... PATSY CLINE In college, I got my roommate into this. It's a lot of fun. I love history. The historical aspect of... DALE CLINE I know it was a shady thing that went on, but this little town has been shady for a long time. BILL CLINE It's not one of those things where we baby-sit them for a weekend. It's a total training process. BILL CLINE If [the detainees] had an opportunity to get at me, they'd get at me. If they have the opportunity t... BILL CLINE EMMA CLINE EMMA CLINE EMMA CLINE You just watch them in awe. LARRY CLINE He stressed the interpersonal relationship of the doctor and patient, DAVID CLINE EMMA CLINE The problem here is easy access to a firearm. 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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. An... 
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or w... 
I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture. 
I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces.... 
When I was little, we used to have Atari. 
I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful ar... 
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was makin... 
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I h... 
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who... 
I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie ... 
I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group wi... 
When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to h... 
I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've trie... 
In 'Twice Born' I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, ... 
Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten b... 
I've never stayed in a tent or a caravan in my life, and I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don... 
I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjo... 
I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places... 
I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails... 
I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine... 
As a kid, I was creative and unique, and I've had that my whole life. 
I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of pa... 
To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn'... 
I think I really thought I was a boy until I was ten years old because my parents divorced when I wa... 
I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've ... 
That's what we need, some guys that have done well at their level. I tell them they're far more adva... 
Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and ... 
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologicall... 
You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I wa... 
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don'... 
If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other ki... 
I've battled my weight since I was 12. My parents took to us to New York once, for a holiday, an... 
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you... 
I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I wou... 
I've had everything pierced at some point. 
I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on hol... 
I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the art... 
Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of live. How badly they need it, and h... 
They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability t... 
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all. 
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what... 
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. 
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab... 
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'... 
We are gods with anuses. 
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. 
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou... 
Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves. 