Getting too much money too soon can be really bad. There's a balance to be kept - the … - Geoff Dyer

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I don't shoot anything. I could never kill an animal. My dad does all the hunting, and he eats everything that he kills.

Geoff Dyer

Getting too much money too soon can be really bad. There's a balance to be kept - the right balance between new experience and a certain stability in one's life. I'm conscious of all these things in a way that, earlier on, I was only conscious of circumstantial stuff, like, money.

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[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation.

Home, Photographs, Taken, Thoroughness, Weekend, William

I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do it when I’ve not got anything better to do – and even then I often do nothing instead.

Kind, Roles, Writers, Writing

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

Appropriate, Book, Form, Style, Subject

I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it seems to me a great film. But whatever pigeon-hole you put Stalker into you would both be increasing the risk of disappointing people and diminishing the film.

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I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

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