Dave Eggers Quotes
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I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
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When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'
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I wanna live.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
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My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
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Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
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When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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'The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...'
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I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class’s teacher, when the class got to Evangeline, kept echoing in my ears: 'We’re coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don’t be babies and start counting the pages.' I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.
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Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away. I pictured wars, I pictured the things my father had done to me, I pictured brutality, and when it was over, I am light.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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You are on a soulful path that asks you to step into the greatest version of yourself. It is a sacred gift to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory, but each day.
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SECRETS ARE LIESSHARING IS CARINGPRIVACY IS THEFT
