Will Self Quotes
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
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I'm not very happy idle.
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
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One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
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Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, has managed to retain high approval ratings despite his slumping economy by seizing Crimea from Ukraine and participating in the Syrian war that is destabilizing the Mideast and, increasingly, Europe and the West.
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Fans recognize me all over the place. But the second you need anything, they're never around! They're like the police!
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I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
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A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.
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You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.
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Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money... However you get them in or why, just do it.
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The only way to buy more is to produce more.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
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Adhering to the flow concept mandates the abolishment of local efficiencies. Ohno addressed this issue again and again in his books, stressing that there is no point in encouraging people to produce if the products are not needed in the very short-term. This emphasis is probably the reason that outside Toyota TPS first became known as Just-in-time production.
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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But the censorship itself admits that it is not an end in itself, that it is not a good in and of itself, that it is therefore based on the principle that “the end sanctifies the means.” But an end that needs unholy means is not a holy end.81 Besides, Marx argues, the maxim always works both ways as a justification: if the censorship can plead the goodness of its ends as justification for what it does, then so can the (antigovernmental) press.
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It was like giving a glass of brandy neat to someone who had never been weaned from a milk diet.
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Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
