Will Self Quotes
You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
D. W. Griffith
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
Zubin Mehta
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Fay Weldon
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
Vance McAllister
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
Rachael Ray
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
Ralph Steadman
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
Yayoi Kusama
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
Dallas Roberts
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
Rafael Nadal
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
Mallory Ortberg
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
Natalie Cole
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People can say what they want about a person, but if you're successful and you make them money, then people don't care.
Lena Waithe
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I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.
Olivia Newton-John
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
Byron Katie
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Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.
Anna Dello Russo
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I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable.
Sigmar Gabriel
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You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.
Will Self