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Dave Eggers Quotes

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Tree Window Small Bathroom Gray

My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.

Experience Buffalo Did Rehearse

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Character Great People Ideas Start

'Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.

Michelle Malkin

Name Immigration Security Enemy Know

The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.

Children Time Hero Men Fun Value

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

Time Book You Know Done Dove

I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

Jonathan Krisel

Weird Know I Was Raised British Like

I work free-weights and do circuit training with my trainer 4-5 times a week. I also train in Brazilian Ju Jitsu several times a week.

Jonathan Lipnicki

Work Training Week Train Trainer

My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes,' was nominated for a number of book awards, one of which was The Quill Award, and they had it in New York at the Natural History Museum.

Snow History New York Book Award

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

Learning High Artists Left-Handed

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

Me Swing Over Afraid Head Going

I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.

Children Child Think Credit Born

People don't just want to be thin. They want to be curvy.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

People Want Curvy Just Thin

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