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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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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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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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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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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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
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If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?
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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.
