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Dave Eggers Quotes

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Doing Go Want Screen One Thing

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

Work Hard Work I Am Slow Worth Hard

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

Life Time Experience Sibling My Own

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Stokely Carmichael

Struggle Racism People Organization

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Attitude Respect Time Mind Start

God has been with me in my whole career.

God Me Career Whole Been

Part of our job as quote-unquote 'celebrities' is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should be a requisite - there should be a clause in the contract that you have to give back.

Job People Think You Back Important

Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people.

Government People Liberty Citizen

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

Racism Corruption Problem Poverty

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

Antonio Banderas

Me World Possibilities Cinema Up

If outsider perspectives made 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Dark Knight' into fantastic franchises, imagine what would happen if you brought in the perspectives of women and people of color.

Women People Color You Dark Happen

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Good I Am Ideas Satisfied Out Only

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

Music Play Jazz More Wanted Some

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