Geoff Dyer Quotes

When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The first thing I tell clients is get off the couch! Just start making some small lifestyle changes such as walking to work instead of driving or taking the stairs instead of the lift. The small things you can change all add up.

Jessie Pavelka

WorkChangeSmall ThingsSmallStart

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

Jeremy Jackson

ToughOldRecipesMostThemWere

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

Jeri Ryan

PastSomeonePlayPleasurePoint

At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas Young was the first and only speaker to propose that the best way to protest the new Tea Act was to dump the tea into the water.

Matthew Stewart

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You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'

Jeffrey Lurie

SuccessOrganizationStartThinking

The business community is very comfortable with Romney.

John T. Chambers

BusinessCommunityComfortableVery

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Amos Bronson Alcott

ConversationDebateMasculine

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

Tom Brokaw

AmericanNowPercentCableAudiences

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

Robyn Davidson

LoveSpaceDesertSenseIncomparable

I feel like I love a little bit of everything. I grew up listening to the stuff my parents liked, from Earth, Wind & Fire, Luther Vandross, Billy Joel to Bruce Springsteen and The Mommas & The Poppas.

Russ

LoveFireParentsWindListeningUp

Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.

Longchenpa

TruthPowerObjectsUltimate

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

Jay Roach

StyleTogetherDesignWillWayRole

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