Ernest Cline Quotes
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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.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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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.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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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.
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People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'
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'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.
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Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.
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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.
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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.
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I like Michael Buble.
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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.
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An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
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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.
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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.
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Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
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People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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I know I speak for the Bishop when I tell you how sorry I am for all the pain you have suffered in your life.
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I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
