Irvine Welsh Quotes
Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.Irvine Welsh
Quotes to Explore
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
Walter O'Brien -
There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
Kate McKinnon -
I think there's no greater healing power than music.
Irvin Mayfield -
I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
Sam Brownback -
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Barry Hannah -
The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
Maisie Williams -
I don't care about revenues.
Jack Ma -
I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
R. Kelly
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I can do whatever I want.
Karl Lagerfeld -
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
Ban Ki-moon -
There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
Zhang Ziyi -
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
Orlando Bloom -
Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
Karen Salmansohn -
Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
Jackee Harry
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The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
C. S. Lewis -
It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.
Elizabeth Marvel -
I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.
Clara Ann Fowler -
A novel is 400 pages; it's an endurance race. There's no artist, so I have to describe everything. It's all prose. Whereas with comics, I can rely on the artist. It's really wonderful to have that collaboration and to not always feel the burden of describing everything myself and also just to have someone who can paint the world.
Marjorie Liu -
Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
Irvine Welsh