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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Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.
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There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
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Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.
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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.
