Ernest Cline Quotes

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

Ernest Cline

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• Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • World
  • Rest
  • Language

• I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Body

• No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

  

  P. F. Strawson
  • Thought
  • Own
  • Contemporary

• I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • God
  • Book
  • Reading

• Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Next
  • Begin

• Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Always
  • Entrepreneur

• 'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Death
  • Me
  • Course

• There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • History

• What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Great
  • Name
  • Recording

• I like Michael Buble.

  

  Doris Day
  • Like
  • Michael Buble

• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Person
  • Changed

• America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Discovered
  • Hushed

• It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Different
  • Feeling

• I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Life
  • Government
  • Inspiration

• You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we've got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives' story lines and what's going on on the home front. I think people really respond to that balance of masculine and feminine.

  

  Abby Brammell
  • Balance
  • Feminine
  • Masculine

• The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

  

  Plato
  • Desire
  • Philosophy
  • Gymnastics

• The contract for the rematch was signed prior to the first fight, they are both signed at the same time. There is no other contract

  

  Eddie Hearn
  • Time
  • Contract
  • Signed

• I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Obsessed
  • Suffered
  • Grades