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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.

- Dave Eggers
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And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

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

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.

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

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