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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Small

• 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!

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Myself
  • Star
  • Child

• How does one measure the success of a museum?

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Success
  • Measure
  • Museum

• 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.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Cars

• The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Great
  • Free
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Up
  • Country
  • Why

• One's life has many compartments.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Many

• If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Growth

• 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.

  

  Diplo
  • Different
  • Famous
  • Inspired

• 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.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Sex

• It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

  

  Kelly Lynch
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Billy Al Bengston
  • Interesting
  • Fall
  • German

• 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.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • True

• 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.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Cinderella

• 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.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Wealth
  • Gift

• A certain mythology has grown up around the band after 30 years. We didn't want to come back until we felt we could play and not pop that bubble.

  

  Eric Carmen
  • Play
  • Band
  • Mythology

• The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Single

• Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Song

• You either hear the story and you're curious, and you're sort of sympathetic, or you think, "Ugh, how horrible." That's dehumanizing. How about we take that and turn Christine Chubbuck into a person and it's not about the final act, it's about her life. I felt that really strongly, and I felt a sort of deep sympathy with her. It's also why I do what I do. I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Life
  • Story
  • Sympathy

• If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

  

  Will Self
  • Seventies
  • Eighty