Irvine Welsh Quotes
Ah jist shrugged, - Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
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I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
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If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.
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Every moment markedWith apparitions of your soul.I'm ever swiftly movingTrying to escape this desire.
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On the very rare occasion when they don't all jump up out of their seats I'm always mortified.
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There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.
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Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
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The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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There are always going to be obstacles. I think the bigger your aspirations, the larger the obstacles.
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I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.
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In real life, my parents pretty much approved of all my boyfriends. I guess I was doing something wrong. I should have been more rebellious.
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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Ah jist shrugged, - Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.
