Geoff Dyer Quotes
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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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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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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.
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Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don't know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us.
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“It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.”
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In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
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There are many who would like my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them. There are precious few who contribute to my time. I cherish them.
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I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.
