Geoff Dyer Quotes
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.
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Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
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I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.
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I think that sleep and work are very closely related - not because you can work while you're sleeping and sleep while you're working. That's not really what I mean. I'm talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events.
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Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.
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It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.
