Will Self Quotes

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFactsHelpYouTelevisionSeem

I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.

Jennifer Holliday

GreatTimeChanceLateKnowOut

If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We don't have a compound eye. I don't think we process sensory information the same way. The muscles that they use are just incredibly much more sophisticated and interesting than the muscles we use.

Michael Dickinson

GreatFlyEyeThinkInterestingYou

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

BeautifulMoneyBelieveSexBuy

No one can take away the experience of Yeltsin's freedoms, but Russian democracy will never follow Western models: other authoritarian 'controlled democracies' - Turkey, Taiwan, Mexico - ultimately developed into democracies. But it took decades.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

ExperienceDemocracyNeverFollow

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

Shunryu Suzuki

ImprovementPerfectEverythingRoom

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

Judge Mills Lane

SocietyBelieveDirectionThinkHelp

I didn't watch TV or movies as a kid.

Jason Ralph

MoviesKidWatchTV

I'm skinny, but a soft skinny. I have strong legs, but my arms are like pea pods with single peas for elbows.

Josh Gondelman

StrongLegsSingleSkinnySoftArms

My goal is to write one book of fiction, and that's all I want to do. It takes so much time, and I don't really have enough time. But I admire writers so much.

Jose James

TimeBookEnoughGoalWantAdmire

Aguilar Zinser played a crucial role in the struggle for democracy in Mexico. He was on the right side of that battle, however strident, passionate, and difficult he was.

Denise Dresser

StruggleDemocracyBattlePassionate

Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.

Conrad Black

SchoolTeachersSystemDestroyed

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Brett Ratner

DayPeopleRealityEndLaughMovies

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