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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If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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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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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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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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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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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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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
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I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.
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Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.
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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.
