Geoff Dyer Quotes
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken -
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
Oren Peli -
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
Ice T -
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
Gary Oldman -
I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
Kaley Cuoco -
I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
Ted Allen -
It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
Idina Menzel -
The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
Feist -
I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin -
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Samuel Butler -
You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.
Vince Gilligan
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
Jack Black -
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama -
I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
Gary Barlow Take That -
Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
Damian Lewis -
People can be slave-ships in shoes.
Zora Neale Hurston -
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
Orlando Bloom
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I've never taken myself too seriously.
Omar Epps -
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
Laurie Graham -
I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
James Gandolfini -
But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.
Claire Forlani -
Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.
Gail Jones -
I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.
Geoff Dyer