Dave Eggers Quotes
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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In the neighborhood where my studio is, in South Central Los Angeles, there are a lot of immigrant-owned businesses. I'm constantly amazed at the level of work they do. It's above anything. For me, I think I pattern myself on that work ethic.
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The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.
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Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, 'How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?'
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I stand with President Trump in the fight to make sanctuary cities pay for the border wall.
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
