Will Self Quotes

From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication?

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You have heard me say many times that I want strong leaders who feel free to express their opinions.

Jeffrey Lurie

MeFreeStrongFeelOpinionsYou

Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.

Sugar Ray Leonard

ChampionSomeoneBoxingFighterJust

Whatever initiatives we launch, we must always put the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore first.

Tony Tan

FirstAlwaysWhateverLaunchMust

Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

Rosalind Wiseman

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It's hard to compare the faith of Gareth Southgate and Roy Hodgson and my lack of chances at Chelsea because it's such a big club.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Mason Cooley

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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

Mike Myers

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Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

Mohsin Hamid

SchoolAmericanValuesCountryPlay

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

Jay-Z

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I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Dee Brown

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Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.

Cornel West

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It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

Conor Oberst

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