Will Self Quotes
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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There's no regrets for me.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
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We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'
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I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.
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The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
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When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
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I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.
