Irvine Welsh Quotes
You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I love to push myself.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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I dress for men.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
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If it is broken fix it. If you don’t like it change it. And if you want something take it. Don’t complain about it. Do something about it.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
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I can't do any competitive sport myself!
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
