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Dave Eggers Quotes

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

School Reading High School Look High

I have had a wonderful time. I don't think things could have gone any better for me because I was football-mad as a boy, and to get a job watching the game and going to all the major events I have been to has been very rewarding.

Time Job Me Game Think Better

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

Love Struggle Sky I Am People Me

I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

Cricket Know Repair Write Study Two

I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed only the key words and the idea. Then to bring in connections, I drew arrows and put in images and codes. It was a picture outside my head of what was inside my head - 'mind map' is the language my brain spoke.

Words Red Blue Mind Brain Key

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Mary Ritter Beard

Beauty Learn See Must Delicate Like

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

Husband Blood Everything Tests Even

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Uncertainty You Taxes Raise Times

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

Hope I Am Fashion Disposable Am

I really like raw connections, and so I've always had a harder time in politics because I feel there's a lot of veneer around everything.

Time Politics Connections Feel Raw

I think about nothing but business the whole time. Even when I go out to my after-parties, people are like, 'You're drinking water?' I'm like, 'Yeah I am.'

Business Time Water I Am People You

My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.

Passion Want Secret Ninja

When you've got curves - you need to show them, and I love showing mine!

Love Curves You Need Show Mine

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