Geoff Dyer Quotes
Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.
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Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'
