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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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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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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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.
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I was really gangly and uncoordinated as a kid. I couldn't even do a cartwheel.
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I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.
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A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
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The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.
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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.
