Will Self Quotes

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 26, 1961

Topics

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Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

Jill Lepore

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When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

Andrew Lincoln

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The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.

Steve Jurvetson

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What appealed to me about 'The Loved Ones' script was that it had this really theatrical element to it. I thought that the scope of this character is so broad, and there is so much fun to be had playing a crazy teenage loner. It was a great way to explore the delusions a mind can create.

Robin McLeavy

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I find that when I come upon something that I think is a historical revelation, I have the sort of adrenaline rush that I imagine a gambler gets in Las Vegas when he hits the jackpot. It's still tremendously exciting to me, and I think all of my peers in the business feel the same way.

Ron Chernow

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You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America's capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government.

Mike Pompeo

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I look at people for their souls, and I can see myself falling in love with anyone after getting to know them and developing a relationship.

Jazz Jennings

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What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

Desmond Llewelyn

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Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

Dolph Lundgren

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We're all from China, and whoever wins, it's OK - I just try my best.

Chen Long

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I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

Chris Young

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Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Arthur C. Nielsen

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