Geoff Dyer Quotes
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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.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.
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The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
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Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.
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When Jesus prayed the model prayer we call the Lord's Prayer, his first requests were that God's name be shown reverence, that his kingdom come, that his will be done.
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My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.
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One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
