Irvine Welsh Quotes
The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
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Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.
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I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.
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My dad took me to see James Brown live, and that's so cool, cause I don't think many people my age can say they saw James Brown. I'm pretty proud of that. That's the thing about me that no one really knows. I had to have been 6 or 7, but I remember it vividly.
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People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
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Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
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All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
