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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The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business.
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There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.
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My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
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I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment...it's not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want to step out on stage with someone wearing a fucking coronet and sporting the old ermine. I told Mick, It's a fucking paltry honour.
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Sometimes actors can be super sensitive!
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Ah jist shrugged, - Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.
