Geoff Dyer Quotes
The more you covet something, the more certain it is that you’ll lose it, and the more devastating the loss will be when it happens-which it will. (p. 216).
Quotes to Explore
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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Fame is definitely a monster: it can suck you in and spit you out and change you. The biggest challenge is to remain yourself regardless of what people say about you.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
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Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.
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I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
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I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
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There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
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To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
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My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.
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People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.
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The more you covet something, the more certain it is that you’ll lose it, and the more devastating the loss will be when it happens-which it will. (p. 216).
