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
Quotes to Explore
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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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You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.
Kacey Musgraves -
Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.
Paula Poundstone -
Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
Diana Ross -
Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
Narendra Modi -
In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.
Matt Taibbi -
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Will Self