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Dave Eggers

"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."

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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."

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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."

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"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."

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"I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get."

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"The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it."

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"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."

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"I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear."

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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."

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"If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts."

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"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."

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Donna Grant

"Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds."

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Dave Eggers
"They took my mother's stomach out six months ago."

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"Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time."

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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."

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Dave Eggers
"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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Dave Eggers
"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange."

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Dave Eggers
"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."

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Dave Eggers
"The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before."

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"But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV."

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Dave Eggers
"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."

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Dave Eggers
"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."

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