Will Self Quotes

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.'

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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New YorkLookingThinkBuildingsNew

I think that the instinct that people have when they see a beautifully produced web series is that they think it must have been made for television and they just chopped it up and put it online.

John Cabrera

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I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

Joey Lauren Adams

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With 'Law & Order,' I had to be very conscious of what I was doing. I didn't want to show too much character.

Jeremy Sisto

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I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

Jennifer Lawrence

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I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

Tom Holland

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The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

Jasper Carrott

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I had no intention of being an entertainer.

Don Ho

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And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

Dorothea Benton Frank

GreatPoliceYouKnowWantWhy

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Douglas Coupland

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Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.

Craig Brown

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I think everybody feels their pregnancy differently, and for me, I was so in work mode.

Cobie Smulders

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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Arthur Murphy

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