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Dave Eggers Quotes

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Time Book You Say Never

You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.

You Actor Little Get Scratch Bit

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

Women You Look Hard See Things

Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right.

Life Life Is Hard Moments You Lucky

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

Words Brain Song Know Island Why

I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.

Growing Up Ups And Downs Growing Up

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

Daily Emotions Want Cherish Need

Feng shui isn't open to interpretation.

Open Interpretation

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

Character Drama Heroes Core Elements

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

Work People Me Feel Walking Long

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

I Am Bad Soccer Edge Sometimes Guy

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

Work Children Pain Rich Grow Ghetto

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

People Jewish Destruction Survived

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