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.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• 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.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• 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.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• 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.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Happy
  • Artist
  • Serious

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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  • Long
  • War

• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
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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.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• It's very special having a new little girl.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • 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.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
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  • Up
  • Music

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Sex
  • Dreams
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• I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

  

  Dana Delany
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• Imagine a man when it all beganThe pilot of 'Enola Gay'Flying out of the shockwave on that August dayAll the powers that be, and the course of historyWould be changed forevermore - Manhattan Project (1985)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Gay
  • Flying
  • August

• By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

  

  Eric Flint
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• I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • God
  • Sorry
  • Autism

• I have watched the spread of violent extremism and jihadism across Europe and the U.K. with dismay, particularly given my history of experiencing threats, abuse, and harassment by Muslim fanatics.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • History
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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.

  

  Dave Eggers
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