Dave Eggers Quotes
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
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I've said it before, I'll say it again, Sarah Palin will never recover from this … No matter what people say, no matter what these polls, she has no future.'
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First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.
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You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings," Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. "Huh?" She shrugged. "That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me.
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These palms are driving me crazy; the motifs are extremely difficult to seize, to put on canvas; it's so bushy everywhere, although delightful to the eye.. .I would like to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but cannot find them as I would like.
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Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.
