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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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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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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The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.
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I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.
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I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.
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But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.
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I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'
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If you read Wall Street's reports, they don't talk of soya bean as originating in China. They don't talk of soya bean as soya bean. They talk of Monsanto soya. Monsanto soya is protected by a patent. It has a patent number. It is therefore treated as a creation of Monsanto, a product of Monsanto's intelligence and innovation.
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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.
