Geoff Dyer Quotes
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
Halsey -
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
Zooey Deschanel -
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
Karl Abraham -
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
Saffron Burrows -
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Pat Barker -
I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
Otis Rush
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In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
Malala Yousafzai -
When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
Kailash Kher -
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
Eduardo Chillida -
I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
Adam Ferrara -
When liberty returns, I will return.
Victor Hugo
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
Paris Hilton -
New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
Eddie Huang -
Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Barbara Sher -
As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
Naomi Watts -
Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
Irwin Thomas
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Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
Betty White -
I've never been the person who's like, 'I've got to get a four-pack of abs!' And I'm not the type to go to the gym and run on the treadmill for 45 minutes and then lift weights.
Cobie Smulders -
I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.
Luke Grimes -
My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
David Rakoff -
For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala -
I had to be on my own, just so that I would not feel as alone. (p. 201).
Geoff Dyer