Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.


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D. J. MACHALE
A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep...
D. J. MACHALE
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin...
D. J. MACHALE
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. Tha...
D. J. MACHALE
My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
D. J. MACHALE
Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things...
D. J. COTRONA
I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - th...
D. J. COTRONA
It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you ...
J. D. VANCE
I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can'...
D. J. COTRONA
Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They&...
D. J. COTRONA
I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
D. J. COTRONA
That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military b...
D. J. COTRONA
My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in...
D. J. COTRONA
I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get ...
D. J. COTRONA
I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or ...
D. J. COTRONA
Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something ...
D. J. COTRONA
I try to stay in decent shape.
D. J. COTRONA
I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with ...
D. J. COTRONA
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk t...
D. J. COTRONA
I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a c...
D. J. COTRONA
Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.
J. D. GRIFFIN
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to b...
D. J. ENRIGHT
I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor b...
J. D. VANCE
Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are s...
J. D. HAYWORTH
While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development ...
J. D. VANCE
On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony...
J. D. VANCE
I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO
I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my...
J. D. SOUTHER
I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monop...
J. D. VANCE
Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody ha...
D. J. HICKS
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to...
D. J. ENRIGHT
My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar w...
J. D. VANCE
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and up...
J. D. VANCE
I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government larges...
J. D. VANCE
People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfull...
J. D. VANCE
In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a br...
J. D. VANCE
I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
J. D. SOUTHER
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think...
J. D. SOUTHER
I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose th...
J. D. VANCE
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose...
J. D. VANCE
It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that ...
J. D. VANCE
Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse...
J D GABRIEL
For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou...
J. D. VANCE
We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordere...
J. D. VANCE
One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio...
J. D. VANCE
I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by ev...
J. D. VANCE
I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so fa...
J. D. VANCE
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other pe...
J. D. VANCE
Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif...
J. D. VANCE
Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w...
J. D. VANCE
Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get ...
J. D. VANCE
If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ...
J. D. VANCE
There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the governme...
J. D. VANCE