Geoff Dyer Quotes

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

Geoff Dyer

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• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Star
  • Idea
  • Just

• I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Know

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Words
  • Ideas

• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Game
  • Favorite
  • Pyramid

• So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Long
  • Done
  • Cold

• I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.

  

  Becky G
  • Great
  • Live
  • Family

• Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Long
  • Game
  • Friend

• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Always

• I personally have not spoken to Marvel and have no plans to do a movie in the immediate future because, number one, I'm tied up with 'Somnia,' which is a fantastic place to be. It's exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Future

• A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Idea
  • Girls
  • Awful

• I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Right
  • Experiences

• 'For a word to be spoken,' Ged answered slowly, 'there must be silence. Before, and after.' Then all at once he got up, saying, 'I have no right to speak of these things. The word that was mine to say I said wrong. It is better that I keep still; I will not speak again. Maybe there is no true power but the dark.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Power
  • True

• Advice to aspiring models: Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.1

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

  

  Frankie Avalon
  • Music
  • Today

• Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Writing

• When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Power
  • Rock

• There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Dance
  • Find
  • Look

• When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Break

• Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • School
  • Thanks
  • Dropout

• Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like.

  

  Bob Buckhorn
  • America
  • Marketing

• If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

  

  Geoff Dyer