Dave Eggers Quotes

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

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• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

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• I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

  

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• I don't do negative things.

  

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• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

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• Leading from behind doesn't work.

  

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• Women drive box office.

  

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• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

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• I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.

  

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• I rode horses since I was a kid.

  

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• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

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• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

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• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

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• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

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• My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

  

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• I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

  

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• I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

  

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• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  

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• The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.

  

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• I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

  

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• You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

  

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• My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'

  

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• There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.

  

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• But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Dad
  • Chaos
  • Caring