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.'
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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.'
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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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.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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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.
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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!'
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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.
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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.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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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?
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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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.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs.
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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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.'
