Geoff Dyer
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GODFREY HOUNSFIELD QUINCY JONES I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not ... CARROT TOP RACHEL BROSNAHAN JOHN MCENROE It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache. NORMAN BORLAUG MARK TWAIN You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO STELLA MCCARTNEY JENNY SLATE Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don't like the gym and I don't like... LYNDSY FONSECA In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people,... MICK FLEETWOOD DUFF GOLDMAN People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard ... TAYLOR HANSON The transgender bathroom thing - it's just so obvious that people are scared of what they don... NIKKI GLASER MANOLO BLAHNIK It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy. URSULA ANDRESS NICK CAVE MAYA ANGELOU HAROLD FEINSTEIN You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to ea... BEN MCLEMORE SASHA GREY STANA KATIC Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN JOHN PIPER KYLIE JENNER I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it'... NATE LOWMAN It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav... RANDY NEWMAN Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if y... NOAH HAWLEY SUFJAN STEVENS No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get t... MARIO WILLIAMS I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it... PIPER PERABO You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it&#... SHELBY LYNNE CHRIS HARDWICK SARAH ALEXANDER When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'... ADAM GREEN KARL PILKINGTON You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to... TYNE DALY It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't g... DAVID FINCHER T-PAIN MAGGIE Q GREG RUCKA GABOUREY SIDIBE ELISHA CUTHBERT JOHN HAWKES I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers... JAMES ST. JAMES CATE BLANCHETT It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that ... DWIGHT SCHULTZ In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take ... ANDREW BOGUT ADRIEN BRODY The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up ... CONDOLA RASHAD When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going ... LISA VIDAL 'Family Guy's got a strong fanbase, man, like no other. It's great. Everywhere around th... MILA KUNIS DAVID SEDARIS It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil... BECKY LYNCH When you're wearing a motorcycle helmet, people don't know who you are. So I just wander aro... ZAC BROWN ALESSIA CARA DYLAN MCDERMOTT STEVE WOZNIAK It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON ROZONDA THOMAS GWYNETH PALTROW BETH HENLEY What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's... OCTAVIA SPENCER For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dud... DAVE ATTELL SOPHIA BUSH JEFFREY R. IMMELT DANICA PATRICK 100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We ha... BILLY BUSH A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you ha... CALISTA FLOCKHART Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just... MARK RUSSELL Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like s... ELLEN POMPEO CHARLIE WATTS The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There&#... ELISABETH MOSS MIKE COLTER Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So muc... JOE CARNAHAN CHRIS CORNELL So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'... JAMES YOUNG The only thing about kissing anyone on screen is that forced intimacy is never pleasant. If you don&... MATTHEW DADDARIO One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied t... VICTORIA OSTEEN It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now. IONE SKYE Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi is just great. You get yourself in a hot bath to soften up your sk... ABBEY CLANCY The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some... CAM Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get s... LYDIA LEONARD ALLEGRA HUSTON AJA NAOMI KING
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Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't ... GEOFF DYER One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remai... GEOFF DYER It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness. GEOFF DYER For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinem... GEOFF DYER In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary. GEOFF DYER It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this ... GEOFF DYER While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, reco... GEOFF DYER Generally, I'm not anti the novel. GEOFF DYER Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times ... GEOFF DYER The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the str... GEOFF DYER I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be cl... GEOFF DYER We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of c... GEOFF DYER My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but 'Nostalghia' really didn't do anything for me... GEOFF DYER Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I'd warmly recommend it. It's supe... GEOFF DYER There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivabl... GEOFF DYER There is a thematic continuity here within Bigelow's work: 'The Hurt Locker' serves up a... GEOFF DYER I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, '... GEOFF DYER In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you ... GEOFF DYER I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for... GEOFF DYER Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the e... GEOFF DYER Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are... GEOFF DYER The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with... GEOFF DYER Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-mind... GEOFF DYER He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant h... GEOFF DYER Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension ... GEOFF DYER If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain pla... GEOFF DYER I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious o... GEOFF DYER I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am ab... GEOFF DYER Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever val... GEOFF DYER When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I shoul... GEOFF DYER We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don&... GEOFF DYER Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made hi... GEOFF DYER A restaurant on the moon could not have had less atmosphere. GEOFF DYER In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'... GEOFF DYER There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then t... GEOFF DYER I would probably, in my 60s, be ready to start having kids, as long as I was spared all the stuff ab... GEOFF DYER I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the... GEOFF DYER I'm as strong and supple as a pane of thin glass. I've got too many ailments - left shoulder... GEOFF DYER People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this q... GEOFF DYER Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposi... GEOFF DYER Junglist! Not Funglist! DYER "Born Alone and so my shadow walks beside me. DYER Shift generally means to change, and we are. DYER Junglist is more than just a music selection, It is a state of mind, you would've had to have been t... DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER Timber Creek's guards are athletic but young. So we weren't necessarily trying to take the ball off ... AL DYER The first one is always tough. And the score doesn't tell it this time. That was a tough game. AL DYER As long as I'm here we're going to keep playing tough teams because that's the only way to really ge... AL DYER It's going to be a battle, there is no doubt. Neither team is ever scared of anybody, and they just ... AL DYER Ashley Baker is our defensive specialist. That's what she did for us last year, and now her shot is ... AL DYER WAYNE DYER And love is love, in beggars and in kings. 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BECKY DYER We've never done anything like this before. We thought it might help three or four kids, but then it... BECKY DYER From parents, we get hugs. We've had a lot of comments that homework time has been cut in half. BECKY DYER We now have peer tutors. They're developing relationships with each other. BECKY DYER This is not just something where low kids are attending. We have gifted and average students partici... BECKY DYER It was by teacher invitation at first, and then we opened it up to the whole student body. BECKY DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER And love is love in beggars and in kings. EDWARD DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER JOHN DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that... DANNY DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER JOHN DYER JOHN DYER WAYNE DYER WAYNE DYER JOHN DYER This is everyone's downtown, ... We want the input of people that use downtown, whether it's people ... BUDDY DYER That is why we're doing the most comprehensive transportation study ever on our downtown area, BUDDY DYER The public needs to have trust and feel good about its public transit system, ... Linda gives the ag... BUDDY DYER My main focus is seeing that these projects don't compete with one another for funding, because if t... BUDDY DYER Orlando's experiencing a true renaissance in its downtown, a place where you can live, work and play... BUDDY DYER
My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's... 
I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You ... 
When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I thi... 
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's cru... 
People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to ... 
It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do. 
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competitio... 
You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that'... 
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha... 
I've had people say to me, 'You'll never sell handbags. You don't work with leather,... 
You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexis... 
My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, ... 
I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it. 
After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom yo... 
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. Y... 
The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't ... 
There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people sti... 
People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of ... 
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo... 
It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into ... 
What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I do... 
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... 
I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people ar... 
The older Mercedes is absolutely beautiful. It's got that lovely purring feeling as the engine t... 
I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you? 
The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing. 
I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think ... 
Fear is one of the elements of nonlethal weaponry. You're going to get hurt, and you don't w... 
It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans... 
I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that... 
For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in... 
There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out o... 
It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The ... 
People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that t... 
It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world ... 
Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay,... 
It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that ... 
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embra... 
I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and ... 
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having ... 
Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it'... 
The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not ... 
When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ... 
I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's re... 
I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't ... 
There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something ... 
Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with i... 
I always think - when I get mad, and people say, 'Don't be the angry black woman' - it&#... 
Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all thin... 
You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call. 
People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics... 
While the wanton Zephyr sings,
And in the vale perfumes his wings. 
The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transform... 
And see the rivers how they run
Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,
Sometimes swift, so... 