Dave Eggers Quotes
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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I have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it's been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.
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Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Realistically, the chances of a breakthrough are very slim given the rigidity of the U.S. position on key issues.
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Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.
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We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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The bone in me never no ho, so no creepin up outta the ziplock. So...
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To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.
