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Ernest Gaines Quotes

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 15, 1933

Topics

I Am Think Trying Find Try Write

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

Jessie James Decker

Rich You Everything Gone Where

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Search Human Word Reject

I hate the expression, 'I'm not fake.'

Michael Bisping

Hate Fake Expression

I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job.

Money Job Parents Me Think Back

Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.'

Family Children Myself Mind Me Easy

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

Baseball Thought Reach Manager Way

If I had a choice between the Champions League and the Golden Boot, then of course it would be the Champions League - no doubt the Champions League.

Doubt Choice Champions Golden Boot

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Me Curiosity Think Universe Driving

My work is really simple. They say 'action,' I do my stuff; they say, 'cut!'

Work Simple Action Say They Say Cut

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

Woman Party Question Suffrage Joined

The Martians are always coming.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

God Courage Anxiety Doubt Rooted

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