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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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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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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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
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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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There's a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority.
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My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.
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Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping. When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.
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I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.
