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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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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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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We don't want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.
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At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.
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I just want to be that to my children. The ultimate father.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.
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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.
