Will Self Quotes
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.Will Self
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
Victor Koo -
I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
Gary Johnson -
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso -
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Zebulon Pike -
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith -
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
T. J. Miller -
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
Hank Azaria -
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch -
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug -
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
Larry Wilmore -
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.
Elden Henson -
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.
Ian McDiarmid -
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld -
A female newcomer and a male newcomer will get paid different amounts of money. You're a newcomer, nobody knows who you are, man or woman doesn't matter. But you're going to get paid different money.
Anushka Sharma -
Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and never lets up, taking you on a ride that leaves your heart pounding. It's almost impossible to put this book down. Dead of Night is an excellent read.
S.G. Browne -
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Will Self