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 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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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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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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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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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.
