Irvine Welsh Quotes
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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I always think - when I get mad, and people say, 'Don't be the angry black woman' - it's like, well, why not? There's so much to be angry about.
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And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.
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Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
