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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We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.
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The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.
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If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
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It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
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I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
