Ernest Cline Quotes
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.Ernest Cline
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Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
Kevin Spacey -
The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.
A. R. Ammons -
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
Sigmund Freud -
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
William Francis Buckley -
Will somebody hold me?
Harry Styles One Direction
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You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.
Sean Parker -
I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was.
George Jung -
Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!
Dan Miller -
Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).
Eric Lander -
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
Strom Thurmond -
I think it's a shame when pop culture forgets that theatricality is a big part of it. When Neil Young is fumbling around in his pocket looking for the right harmonica, it doesn't matter that he's a dude in the hat who is a man of the people - there's a theatricality there. You don't have to be David Bowie or the Kabuki theater to have that theatricality going on.
Johnny Marr Pretenders
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Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.
Malachy McCourt -
In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.
Gary Gach -
My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.
Edward Sorel -
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.
Ernest Cline