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Geoff Dyer Quotes

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Learning Writing Book Reading Doing

You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.

Matthew Desmond

Poverty Result You Inequality Role

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Life Words Think You Loving Meet

John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys.

Good Man Amazing Three Want Meet

With my platform, anyway, I want to try and do good things and want to help people.

Millie Bobby Brown

Good People Good Things Help Want

Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.

Art Find Fiction Poet Social Common

It's not my business what other people think of me.

Business People Me Think Other

I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.

Meetings Tolerance Long Over Expect

If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.

Christian Siriano

Life Beautiful Book You Look See

I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, 'Oh my God, you're from the movie 'Big Daddy,'' and I had bird poop all over me.

God Bird Day School Me Remember

What a lot of people don't realise about me is that I have no idea what's going on in the media. I don't pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don't enter into it at all on any level.

Time People Mind Me Internet Media

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

Mature Same Kids Other Did Disabled

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

Thomas Keneally

Good Believe Hell You Dirty Know

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