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" In my nothing, you were everything, to me. "

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" I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way. "

" I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. "

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" What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this. "

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