Will Self Quotes
Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.
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Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it is a set of discrete creations, it is not like that. But nevertheless, this spontaneity is constantly arising. And it is within this that is our freedom.
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For a long time, I was very naive and very trusting. I Just didn't think anyone would want to do anything to harm me, but I learned through trial and error that that's not the case.
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Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
