Geoff Dyer Quotes

I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodDayWeekYouCinemaWill

It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.

John Catsimatidis

ValueMilkEveryoneSeemsKnows

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Robert Morgan

FamilyStartFindPlaceYoungTake

When I first worked in Zimbabwe, I was a complete novice. I was doing a study, and I continued to learn more and more through the years. And where I have learned most is in the village, from the communities.

Ann Cotton

LearnDoingI Have LearnedVillage

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

Andy Taylor

MusicPeopleYouLookTouchOut

It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate.

Jeb Bush

SonBrotherThinkHardMayHardest

Broadway is full of crazy people.

John Tiffany

PeopleCrazyCrazy PeopleBroadway

I'd stay away from investments in a variety of sectors that are capital intensive. Anyone who says we need $100 million before we know if what we're doing makes sense and the customers want it - that's not going to work.

Steve Jurvetson

WorkDoingKnowWantNeedGoing

I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

Sia

MusicWomanManBodyGaySometimes

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

Mike Tyson

HeartFightSomeoneWantWillOut

The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.

Michelle Dean

SimpleRisksStrangerThingsPlot

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

Mira Nair

HomeSadPeopleCityYouKnow

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Lucy Hawking

DaughterFreeFateYouWonderWill

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