Ernest Cline Quotes
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
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We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
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I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.
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The thing that's wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.
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I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
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Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.
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Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.
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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
