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?Geoff Dyer
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I think it's always best to be who you are.
Halle Berry -
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.
Zac Brown Band -
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!'
Caitlin Doughty -
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.'
Karen Gillan -
I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
Harold Prince -
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.
Zig Ziglar -
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone -
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.
Ted Turner -
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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.
Ian Fleming
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
Irwin Shaw -
I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
Sam Claflin -
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp -
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge -
I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel -
For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?
Kathy Ireland
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The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.
Bahá'u'lláh -
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
Victor Hugo -
There is no such thing as 'safe' Socialism. If it's safe, it's not Socialism. And if it's Socialism, it's not safe. The signposts of Socialism point downhill to less freedom, less prosperity, downhill to more muddle, more failure. If we follow them to their destination, they will lead this nation into bankruptcy.
Margaret Thatcher -
I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
Jason Alexander -
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?
Geoff Dyer