Geoff Dyer Quotes
The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
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Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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Fashion anticipates.
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I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.
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The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?
