Ernest Cline Quotes
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
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Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.
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I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'
