Irvine Welsh Quotes
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
Quotes to Explore
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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I feel like Valleywag has been different things with different writers over the years. Up and down. I think it's at their best when they get a legitimate scoop, like when someone leaks them documents. I feel like we could do more of that, breaking stories.
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You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.
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I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.
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I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
