Geoff Dyer Quotes

The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YouSometimesShareSomethingSense

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

Jim DeMint

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I just feel like I'm on a quest to fail if I try to even compete with myself.

Jenova Chen

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At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.

Andre Ward

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Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

John Leo

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There's a blockbuster side to Knopf, whether it's P. D. James or John le Carre or our best-selling books. We try to sell our writers as aggressively as those houses regarded as commercial with a capital C.

Sonny Mehta

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I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.

Trisha Yearwood

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Gabriel Byrne is just an amazing fellow and an amazing actor.

Travis Fimmel

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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Mary Augusta Ward

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The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.

Martin O'Malley

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Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

Bryan Callen

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I'm brutally honest with people.

Seth Moulton

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Go to the Savoy for a classic British tea and to see what a $350 million renovation can do for a hotel.

Richard Quest

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