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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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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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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I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.
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But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
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I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
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When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator's always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
