Will Self Quotes

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.

Jim Broadbent

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Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.

Joe Frazier

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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

John Cleese

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Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Jeff Daniels

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I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.

Jaye Davidson

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When people are performing in a musical, everybody is intuitively drawn to the right pitch. You don't want to be too broad that people can't relate to it, so it has to have some grounding in the real world.

Josh Gordon

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We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

Clyde Tombaugh

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I have to admit, I underestimated Billie Jean and overestimated myself.

Bobby Riggs

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Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!

Brigitte Bardot

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It's true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The question is what kind of technology, in the end, do we want to deploy in the far reaches of the ocean? Tools of science, ecology and documentation, or the destructive tools of heavy industry?

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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