Geoff Dyer Quotes

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

Geoff Dyer

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Shoes
  • Sexy

• A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Said
  • Rebel

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Effort

• In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Time
  • Diversity
  • Evolution

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Love
  • Process

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Health

• I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • Done
  • High

• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Earth
  • Face
  • Furniture

• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• Cricket was my reason for living.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Reason
  • Living
  • Cricket

• I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Live
  • Success
  • Song

• When the Greatest Hits came out and we did that tour, I just felt I wanted to take a break, totally. Probably because, as well, I was so young when I got famous. I did album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, then I had a public nervous breakdown where I just lost tons of weight.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Lost
  • Famous

• Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Success
  • Failure

• I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Think
  • Change
  • Brain

• Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Necessary

• One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

  

  Geoff Dyer
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