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.
Will Self
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Macaulay Culkin
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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.
Adam Grant
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
Aaron Neville
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
Halsey
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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.'
Ingrid Betancourt
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Kate Christensen
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I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
Karen Thompson Walker
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Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
Emanuel Celler
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The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.
Lesley Gore
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She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Will Self
