Will Self Quotes
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.
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I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.
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Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
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I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
