Will Self Quotes
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
Quotes to Explore
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
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I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
John Moody -
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
