Geoff Dyer Quotes

Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

Geoff Dyer

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
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• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
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• It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
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• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
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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.

  

  Washed Out
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• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

  

  Ian McShane
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• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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  • Age

• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

  Karl Shapiro
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• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

  

  E. B. White
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• Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
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• Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Art