Geoff Dyer Quotes

Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

Joe Sacco

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I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

Megan Abbott

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When I was at Hamburg, 17 or 18, Ruud van Nistelrooy signed, and he helped me a lot. He saw my first training session, and he talked to me. He told me I was a good player. He gave me confidence, and I want to thank him for that.

Son Heung-min

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I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA system blasting away.

Tommy Lee

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I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

Robert Benchley

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Donald Trump has created a movement; my job is to keep momentum behind it, keep it growing for the 2018 challenge.

Ronna McDaniel

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I was excited to turn 60.

Mary Steenburgen

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I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

Michel Faber

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People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

Jonathan Nolan

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I haven't gone home with anybody who tried to pick me up in a long time.

Jorja Fox

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Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Jon Krakauer

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It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote, 'free speech' narrative in this way. They deny the speech of the people who disagree.

DeRay Mckesson

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