Will Self Quotes

The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

Will Self

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Funny
  • Rap

• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Reality

• People trash talk me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Talk

• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Attention
  • Away
  • Acne

• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Done
  • Know
  • Government

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Two
  • Islam
  • Jews

• You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • You
  • Win
  • Fat

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lies

• I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Peace
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Time
  • Music
  • Stop

• And again, President Obama's health care plan really is another drag on the economy. Until we get Washington out of the way, this president's recovery is going to continue to rank dead last.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Health
  • Recovery

• If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Tree

• I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Careers
  • Exciting

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • Today
  • Enemy

• The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

  

  Will Self
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Curious