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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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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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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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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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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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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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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I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.
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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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I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors.
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Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.
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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.
