Irvine Welsh Quotes
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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My first car was a motorcycle.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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I'm very open-minded.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
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Life is always at some turning point.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.
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We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
