Geoff Dyer Quotes
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
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Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
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People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
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My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder.Its narrow measure spansRue for eternity, and sorrowNot mine, but man's.This is for all ill-treated fellowsUnborn and unbegot,For them to read when they're in troubleAnd I am not.
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And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
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To be teammates in Formula One actually means you are first rivals, not really mates.
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I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
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The notion that you're not supposed to show how you feel is really detrimental, not just to yourself but to the way you end up treating other people.
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Stories don't interest me.
