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 only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
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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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I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.
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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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When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
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Google is not a synonym for research.
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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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I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'
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For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.
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Ah jist shrugged, - Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.
