Geoff Dyer Quotes
In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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They attracted Hurricanes and Spitfires as honey attracts flies.
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
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I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.
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I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of - how shall I say, I don’t know.
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I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.
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In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.
