"If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding."

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Source : "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

Will Self

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“I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.”

Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal"". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story”
“To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.359, tredition
“The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing in Iran, so the government is actually more open about it than they are about some of the other ills in society. They just don't want to talk about things that might relate to a Western lifestyle even though they know that Iranians indulge. Because there is no real public life left in Iran - people go and have dinner and then everything retreats behind these Persian walls.”
“One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at the very end. I could tell that nobody read the whole review because they would just say, "It was great to see the review!" In a way, my brain shuts down at the end of an article. It doesn't really want to go to the end.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When someone has to do work for me, I lose my mind. I can't help it, I'm a bit of a control freak. I've always wanted something that would depict slow-moving paintings, stunning artwork that also incorporates movement. It was hard letting someone else create that vision for me, but I love it.”
“One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.”
“During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.”

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