Geoff Dyer Quotes
For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.Geoff Dyer
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I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
Fleur East -
Smarter is always the answer.
Samuel J. Palmisano -
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
F. W. de Klerk -
I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
Sally Field -
People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
Felix Dennis -
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
Laura Linney -
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson -
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Gary Larson -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.
Lance Ito -
When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
Zoe Kazan
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I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
Rachel Platten -
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
Pam Grier -
Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
Naftali Bennett -
There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.
Iris Apfel -
Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
Gary Neville
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Federico Fellini -
Muir describes himself as me the poetico-trampo-geologist-bot & ornith-natural etc etc -!-!-! !
John Muir -
I don't always think I am right, not by a long shot, but no one stifles me. When I care deeply about something, you are going to know.
Kimberly Guilfoyle -
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.
America Ferrera -
For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.
Geoff Dyer