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Geoff Dyer Quotes

In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Attention Fortitude 1930s Found Both

When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.

Jim James

Hate People Want Sound Drum Beatles

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

Jennifer Egan

Change Music Age Time Interesting

I like people to be authentic, thoughtful, and honest.

Robert Rinder

People Thoughtful Honest Authentic

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Humor Places Always Where Found

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

Roger Stone

Freedom People You Party Personal

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

Rodney Brooks

Life Future People Kitchen Computers

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

Martin Scorsese

Heart People Resolve Out Leave Stay

Acting is not about showing what you're feeling. It's about doing something. It's about what you're doing for the other person. Anything other than 'doing' is not grounded in the truth.

Lucas Hedges

Truth Doing You Acting Person Than

I don't really watch movies. I don't own a TV.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Movies Own Watch TV Really

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Desmond Tutu

Think Us Would Unpopular Most Than

It's all about the special effects.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Special Special Effects About Effects

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Christopher Lasch

Values Destruction Side Social