Geoff Dyer Quotes

It's funny, because people always say when they meet me, having read me - or they read me, having met me - that they are struck by how the tone is pretty similar, in real life and in the books.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFunnyPeopleMeSayMeet

Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.

Joel C. Rosenberg

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You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

John de Mol, Jr.

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People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

Jenny Shipley

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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

John Madden

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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Anita Brookner

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

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What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do.

Ruth Reichl

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I've been treated beautifully wherever I've gone, and I really think we all want to love each other.

Luis Alberto Urrea

LoveThinkWantWhereverGoneBeen

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

Lisa Scottoline

GoodTruthYourselfTruth IsYou

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

Jason Patric

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I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

Jay Baruchel

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In the beginning of your mixed martial arts career, you're not making good money.

Demetrious Johnson

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