Irvine Welsh Quotes
I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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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.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.
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I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
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I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.
