David Sheff
Books by David Sheff
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Game Over
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High
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Quotes by David Sheff
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I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.
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... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames
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In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, It's better to burn out than to fade away. He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, he said. I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.
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... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames
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In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, It's better to burn out than to fade away. He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, he said. I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.
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I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.
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Every relapse is dangerous, but often it takes multiple relapses before someone finally gets sober for good.
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When, you know, when Nic became addicted, I was completely uneducated, and basically everything I assumed at the time turned out to be wrong. I guess the main thing is that I was so blindsided, that I had this idea of, you know, what an addict looks like, and it didn't look like Nic. And I realized that, you know, anybody can become addicted.
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That's the difference between even the best video game and what's going on in books. Video games can inspire a reaction, but not the emotions.
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The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want in any city in America within half an hour.
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Kids love the 'Mario Brothers' games, which are whimsical, inventive and lots of fun.
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