Ernest Cline Quotes

I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

Ernest Cline

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• The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Cool
  • Happen
  • Most

• Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Age

• Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Serious

• Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fame

• Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Sometimes
  • Story
  • News

• The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Together
  • Career
  • Words

• I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Time
  • Brain
  • Will

• The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Men
  • Women
  • Vanity

• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bored
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Never
  • Thought

• I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • High
  • Team
  • Season

• I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Hope
  • Escape
  • Fish

• Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Home
  • Interesting
  • Door

• Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Power
  • Innocence
  • Convinced

• Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Truth
  • Effort
  • Humility

• In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Anger

• Maybe all obligate carnivores are essentially the same. Can I eat that? Is it going to eat me? Is it a toy?

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Eat
  • Carnivores

• I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Believe
  • Movies
  • Million

• My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Brother

• I think I was drawn to comedy originally because when I was really young, by the time I was eight I had seen movies like The Jerk, Animal House, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles with my dad, and I knew them by heart. I loved them and my dad loved them, and we would laugh together, and I would think, 'This is love.' I just wanted to make people feel like that.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Comedy
  • Movies
  • Animal House

• I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Movies
  • Star Wars
  • Classics