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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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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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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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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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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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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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 general, comedians are attracted to vice.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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There are things I'm doing with 'The After' that would've never flown on 'The X-Files' and on network television, so it's more permissive. That's not to say that you want to abuse that. I think that a show like 'The X-Files' actually worked better as a network show with the restraints put on it, the censorship that was applied.
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Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
