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Ernest Cline Quotes

I still tell people, 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Star Wars' fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by writing a movie about breaking into Skywalker Ranch.'

Ernest Cline

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1972

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History People Writing Tell Break

Every single day, entrepreneurship has highs and lows, and you need to feel like you have a community around you. That is insanely important - to have a community of people around you lifting you up and who really know you.

Jennifer Hyman

Community Day People Feel You Know

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Andre Gide

Love Beauty Prayer Hands Young Soil

I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.

Ann Veneman

Think Criticism Cow Mad Place Years

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.

Michael Gruber

Character Art People Care Fake You

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Amar Bose

Father Mother Food Deep Philosophy

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

Simon Baker

Love Good Same Successful Would

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

Simon Mainwaring

Working Together Together Practice

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Matt Blunt

Technology Age Government Internet

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

Luis von Ahn

Humanity Want More Human Wasted Get

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

Liv Ullmann

Good People Free You Talk Need

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

Peter Ackroyd

People House Buy Seem Who Houses

My mom and dad will look at me and my husband, and they're like 'I feel so sorry for this child! He's not eating fish sticks and pizza!' I'm like, 'We try to give it to him, but he doesn't wanna eat it!'

Tia Mowry

Pizza Child Me Mom Eating Husband