Will Self Quotes

The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.

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• Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Live
  • Nation
  • Ticket

• Producing should be a creative responsibility.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Creative

• There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Nothing
  • Being
  • Naked

• Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Movies

• I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Work
  • Taken

• There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Action

• People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• I drive a BMW 1 series convertible. I love my Beamer.

  

  Angela Cope

• There is a lot of growth taking place in capturing aspirational consumers and converting them to luxury as they evolve.

  

  Priya Sachdev
  • Growth

• For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Friends
  • True
  • Light

• I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Moving
  • Sea

• I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.

  

  Melanie Lynskey
  • Beautiful

• I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.

  

  John Edwards
  • She

• We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

  

  Anna Lindh
  • Focus

• It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Thanks
  • Thanksgiving
  • Indians

• I don't put cash in my Louis Vuitton wallet. I have it thrown around my bag - jut a whole bunch of hundreds, maybe $5,000.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Bunch
  • Cash
  • Bags

• Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.

  

  David E. Sorensen
  • Goodness
  • Constant
  • Temples

• I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Men
  • Athletics
  • Boats

• When something is not good, it's bad. Period

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Periods

• It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Periods

• The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.

  

  Will Self
  • Periods
  • Willpower
  • Plumber