Geoff Dyer Quotes
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
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I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.
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The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.
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People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.
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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
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The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.
