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First of all, Iit's all people like you. And that's what's so scary. you don't know what you're doing. (Dave Eggers)
You see pictures of Buddha and he's sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross. View quote
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What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith? View quote
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You're like part human, part rainbow. View quote
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I live because I do not exist. View quote
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The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003. View quote
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I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. View quote
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Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. View quote
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And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. View quote
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I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. View quote
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It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. (Dave Eggers)
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher. View quote
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You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. View quote
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To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. View quote
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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. View quote
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I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked. View quote
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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. View quote
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But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. View quote
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You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist. View quote
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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. View quote
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But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia. (Dave Eggers)
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. View quote
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I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. View quote
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise. View quote
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I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. View quote
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