Geoff Dyer Quotes
It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.
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I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.
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Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.
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It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.