Geoff Dyer Quotes

I first got a sense of that idea of nodality - but I didn't use the word back then - with 'The Missing of the Somme': that sense of a particular place in a landscape or on a map having some kind of tremendous power to draw us to itself... that made me conscious, and since then, really, it has been an abiding concern of mine.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.

Jenny Slate

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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

John Eldredge

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Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

Melvyn Bragg

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Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening', you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.

Ann Coulter

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I didn't ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many.

Ann Leckie

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Especially in the whip operation, you're in constant contact with the members and their chiefs of staff, so having a chief who's approachable and reaches out to other chiefs so people know what's going - know what they're looking for in the policy that comes to the House floor - is incredibly important.

Steve Scalise

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Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.

Molly Crabapple

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When you're doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it's the most rewarding thing.

Dennis Edwards

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I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

Dennis Bergkamp

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Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

Brian Grazer

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I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

Chuck D

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Some people have called me the anti-Trump, and I'm so proud.

Pramila Jayapal

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