Ernest Cline Quotes
I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
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Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
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Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
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I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.
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The '80s was a great decade for comedy.
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Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.
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Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.
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I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.
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I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.
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If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand...more.
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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
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Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
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Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
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I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
