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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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
