Irvine Welsh Quotes
The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
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All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
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You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.
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I have never used steroids. Period.
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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.
