Chess Game Quotes - Page 5

• Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

  Tom Cruise

  Black And White, Games, Patterns

  "New Again: Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and then here comes another one. When does that end? What I'm trying to do is get it to end right now, by recognizing that that cycle is writing. That is: trying to understand the frustrations and setbacks (and agony) as part of a bigger chess game you are playing with art itself.

  George Saunders

  Art, Writing, Frustration

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Black And White, Opposites

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• I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, People, Dying

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. June 27, 1999.

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• I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

  Anna Kendrick

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "What Makes a Gentleman?". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

  Daniel Craig

  Sexy, Thinking, Games

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• A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fighting, Games, Quality

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• I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

  Roger Ebert

  Games, Littles, Pilots

  "Mastermind" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. August 22, 1997.

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• Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

  Demian Maia

  Fighting, Winning, Games

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• Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Squares, Games

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• The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

  Norbert Wiener

  Success, Math, Games

  "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

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• All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Winning, Games, Atheism

  Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

  Amber Benson

  Writing, Games, Giving

  "Amber Benson: From vampires to 'Among the Ghosts'" by Louis Peitzman, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

  Al Leiter

  Book, Games, Up Early

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• I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

  John Harsanyi

  Moving, Games, Chess Match

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• American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, School, Games

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• Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

  Budd Schulberg

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Player, Games, Life Is Like

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• I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

  Jenny Frost

  Fate, Games, Heaven

  "Jenny Frost: I'm sure Mum is watching over me and shaping my life". www.mirror.co.uk. November 11, 2010.

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