Will Self Quotes

Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa - it's the overfed ones here we need to worry about.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

John Abraham

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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

John D. Rockefeller

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In many companies, the person who talks the best usually gets the job. I got snowed by a few of those people over the years. I still think communication is important, but I don't think there's always a correlation between being a great communicator and other virtues that make for a great leader.

John Mackey

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When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.

Jean Paul Gaultier

GoodHappyPeopleMeEnergyFeel

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

Michael Ashcroft

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The second single from 'Purpose,' Justin Bieber's fourth studio album, 'Sorry' is an infectious confection - a Dorito for your ears.

Mary H.K. Choi

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Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

Miranda Otto

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There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

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Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

Jonathan Sacks

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The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

Dorothy Malone

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Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.

Clifford Ross

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