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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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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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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I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.
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And fathers, . . . listen to [your returned missionary sons], and connect with them in regular, focused conversation. Talk with them in depth about their feelings and desires. Pray with them and give them blessings as they face the important decisions in their future.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
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I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.
