Geoff Dyer Quotes
If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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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.'
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'
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'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.'
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Advice to aspiring models: Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.1
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I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.
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Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
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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.
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At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend and he was making instruments, Paul Burwell and I were making instruments, Evan Parker was making instruments, and we knew Hugh Davies, who was a real pioneer of these amplified instruments.
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I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.
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In as much as any invisible, unbelievable, unknowable fictional character is, yes.
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'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.
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If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.
