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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My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.
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I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
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I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
