Will Self Quotes
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
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Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.
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It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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I'm not a parent yet, but I feel like a kid needs to be loved.
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Everyone's favorite breakfast dish can be prepared in a moment's time with just a few ingredients and minimum effort.
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The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.
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I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections.
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I don't work with a trainer. I just go to cheerleading practice and run a couple times a week.
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Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.
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In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend. That's something I learned moving forward into adulthood: to keep the people around me people who love me for exactly who I am.
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If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
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Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
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I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on.
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I know that’s probably not always true, but I operate on the principle that if it sounds great when you’re just playing it on the piano or guitar and singing it, then making it into a stylistic statement is just not a problem. It’s just going to be a matter of time, turning the crank and getting an arrangement out of the song.
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I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
