Ernest Cline Quotes
I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I received free health care.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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Life is anything but predictable.
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I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
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The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
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I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
