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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Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
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The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest American and international audiences is the love story between Nicolas and Cecelia that's a metaphor of today's occidental couple, namely the women in the shadows who carry their husbands into the spotlight, but the man is so absorbed with work so the woman leaves him for another man.
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To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.
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Tupac used to comment on people who criticized him for cursing, as a matter of fact he said, this is just about verbatim, ‘As I walked into this hall, I passed a young child who was hungry. There is not a bigger curse than a young child hungry’.
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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.
