Dave Eggers Quotes

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

Dave Eggers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MorningWordsValueBackNewsWay

I'm usually attracted to more interesting types of men. I have no desire to be with a cookie-cutter Ken doll.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

MenInterestingDesireMoreDoll

I really like kids.

Joel Edgerton

LikeKidsReally

We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.

Matt Stone

GoodStoryPressureFeelEasyMore

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

John Sayles

ChangeMyselfMeWritingFirstTwo

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

Steven Heighton

NationalismCountryCanadaKindNeed

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Roger Ebert

WorldActingManyTalentedFewThin

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

Robin Wright

MeSayingBetterRememberYouRole

Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club.

Ruth Buzzi

GirlOldDancingYearsClubLessons

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

Jason Isbell

ThinkArtistCountryPersonSinger

I love to give money away. I don't know if it makes my children and grandchildren all that happy.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

LoveChildrenMoneyHappyKnowGive

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Conor McGregor

MyselfTrainingWinStartLearnGot

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

Brewster Kahle

GreatLibraryInternetTryingYou

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