Will Self Quotes
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
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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.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I like to discover new things.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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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.
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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.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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.
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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.
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I like 'me'/'I' songs.
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Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.
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What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.
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The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
