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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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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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This town was built on nepotism.
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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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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
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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.
