Geoff Dyer Quotes

When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 5, 1958

Topics

GoodTimeMyselfHaving A Good Time

There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of a storm. Perhaps, then, it's not surprising that shores touch my soul. Science might disagree, but I think there's a difference in the air on a coast - the positive ions, perhaps.

Jo Beverley

PositiveSeaPowerScienceOcean

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

Maurice Sendak

ChildrenRespectBestWorldDeep

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Ann Bancroft

EducationSchoolCollegeHigh School

We live in a culture where people are constantly telling us how to get what we want, and within that message is, 'You need to be something other than you are.'

Tracee Ellis Ross

LiveCulturePeopleYouWantNeed

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

Tracy Chapman

LiveArtExpectationsThinkSomeone

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

Rory Bremner

PeopleMeImpressionIdeaNo Idea

I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.

Mo Ibrahim

PracticeThinkLookFirstNeed

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

Jay DeMarcus

MusicCountryBoyBandPopReally

I want happiness for my daughter - I want Carrie to be happy.

Debbie Reynolds

HappinessDaughterHappyBe Happy

I'm not into politics.

David Stern

Politics

'The New York Times' is inherent in what we are, but not worn as 'what we are'; it's important and crucial to all of us, but not something that was drilled in, in any specific ways.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

New YorkNewImportantSomethingUs

Here's what's interesting about Katharine Hepburn: she was born a girl but identified as a boy, so she shaved her head and rechristened herself Jimmy.

William J. Mann

GirlInterestingBornBoySheHead

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