Will Self Quotes
If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That's what appeals to me about it. I want to have as much fun as possible.
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The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
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One's life has many compartments.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
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A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.
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I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times a year. Figuring out how to come home and talk to them again and feel like myself has probably been the greatest challenge.
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It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
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It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.
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I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.
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I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
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He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.
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There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.
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People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention.
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In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage.
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No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.
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If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
