Geoff Dyer Quotes
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.
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I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.
