Dave Eggers Quotes

I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.

Dave Eggers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1970

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I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Maureen Forrester

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I ended up working on over 150 political campaigns in 42 states; over a third of those were for Republicans. I want to be clear about that. Approximately two-thirds were for Democrats, so, I worked on both sides of the aisle, across the United States.

Michael Avenatti

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Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

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I live in South Africa. I'm proud to live there. I've always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it too much.

Trevor Noah

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George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

Robert Dallek

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As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

Rosalind Wiseman

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One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

Mary Ellen Mark

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People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

Miriam Margolyes

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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

Jonathan Demme

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The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Douglas Bader

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I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

Debby Ryan

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