Dave Eggers Quotes

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

Dave Eggers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkCreativityOptimismSpaceIdeas

I have no doubt who I am.

Jeanne Moreau

I AmDoubtWhoNo DoubtAm

I had never really seen 'Agent Carter' before I got the part.

Lotte Verbeek

NeverSeenGotBeforePartAgent

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

Judy Davis

GoodMindImageAnythingGetKiller

With my career, considering my age and how much time I've been out... how much time I've got left, nobody knows.

Josh Gordon

AgeTimeCareerNobodyOutLeft

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Joni Eareckson Tada

CultureDayDeathDieEvery Day

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

David Storey

FriendshipTrue FriendshipTrueMake

I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.

Bonnie Hunt

HomeSchoolAppreciationGeneration

I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.

August Wilson

PowerTeacherMeThinkSaidWill

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' 'Network,' and 'The Parallax View': They were drawn from the genre tradition, but they dressed down the stylistic telling of those traditions and genres.

Todd Haynes

ViewTraditionDownDressedLike

The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

GoodExperienceLieEvilGenius

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Richard Price

FreedomArtExcellenceTalentMind

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

Nina Conti

JobPeopleMeControlGivingActing

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