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Will Self Quotes

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Computers Way Become Out Head Whole

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Age Reach You Kind Mental Soon

Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me before, but now we're on this date, going to see the 'Sixth Sense.' And right before the climax, he leans in - and I'm so excited, because I think we're going to French-kiss - and then he tells me the twist. He completely ruins the movie for me.

School Me High School Think Back

Running a marathon is something I've always wanted to do.

Marathon Always Something Wanted

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

Work Fashion Doing Year Place Toxic

I collect robots. They're mainly Japanese, American, and especially Russian - small robots, big robots, and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Small American Robots Old Big Toy

That's one of the problems with Hollywood. It'll say 'policeman,' and an unless it says 'black policeman,' a lot of times you won't even get the opportunity to read for it, which is kind of crazy, but that's the way it is.

Opportunity Crazy Problems Black You

When I walk around, I look at people and observe people.

Rodrigo Santoro

Walk People Look Observe Around

I think that I've always been a kind of structured person.

Think Person Kind Always Been

The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.

Cooking Yourself Shopping Week You

I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.

Age Think Talking Ice You Run

Not that I don't care about winning or I don't care about doing well, but I have to care less about the things that happen that are outside of my control.

Control Winning Care Doing Outside

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

Be Kind Negative Think Sometimes

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