Dave Eggers Quotes

SECRETS ARE LIESSHARING IS CARINGPRIVACY IS THEFT

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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.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Best
  • Picture
  • King

• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Life
  • Country
  • Right

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • You
  • Page

• 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.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Me
  • Name

• I wanna live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Wanna

• You can't escape from what you are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • You
  • Escape

• I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Little

• Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Public

• The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • American
  • Problem
  • Moral

• Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Never
  • Things
  • Blog

• 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.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Path

• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • You
  • Reputation
  • Obvious

• '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...'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Long
  • Words
  • Teacher

• Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

  

  Irving Kristol

• Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.

  

  Alfred de Vigny

• Neverland is the way I would like real life to be … timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.

  

  Mary Martin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Free

• It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

  

  John Berger
  • Book

• I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Never

• No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• Everything we will ever need, we already have within us.

  

  Reggie Lee
  • Need
  • Everything
  • Already

• SECRETS ARE LIESSHARING IS CARINGPRIVACY IS THEFT

  

  Dave Eggers