Dave Eggers Quotes
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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You're gifted to do something.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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The funny thing about being creative is that, especially high school people, I kept noticing I'd always go to these certain materials. I'd always be picking up trash and picking up paper and using it.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy - I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else.
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I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
