Geoff Dyer Quotes
The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
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The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
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I didn't know I'd ever be able to love my second child like I love my first; she came out, and I was amazed I could love them both equally.
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It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.
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The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.
