James Bernard Frost Quotes

I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.

James Bernard Frost

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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

Jhonen Vasquez

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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.

John Hawkes

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In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.

John Fleming

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But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Andrea Martin

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A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers.

Robert J. Sawyer

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Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Years ago, Barry Diller asked me to be a judge on a pilot for an inventor show on USA, and when it was over, the producer, Ken Mok, took me out to dinner and really got me talking. It was a long dinner. Afterward, he said, 'One day, I'm going to write your movie'.

Joy Mangano

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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

Jasper Johns

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War is just one more big government program.

Joseph Sobran

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I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table.

Dom DeLuise

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If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

David Soul

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The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

Christine Pelosi

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