Geoff Dyer Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
Kai Bird -
Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
Karen Bender -
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
T. C. Boyle -
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
Banks
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
Yasmine Al Masri -
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman -
I want to have an impact on my son.
Orlando Bloom -
I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
Sam Brownback -
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Man knows so much and does so little.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
Iris DeMent -
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
Gary Oldman -
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Kate Atkinson -
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
Aaron Paul -
I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
Larry Wilmore
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Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.
Gary Busey -
However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
Eddie Murphy -
If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
Colleen Haskell -
But the reality is that we are a folk band.
Amy Ray -
Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
Geoff Dyer