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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Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.
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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.
