Irvine Welsh Quotes
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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C Kalyan has been amazing and totally committed as a producer.
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
