Irvine Welsh Quotes
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I'm easily entertained.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I went to Willoughby Girls High, I finished my high school certificate and then I did shorthand and typing the next year. Then started travelling and never used it since.
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There are so many people that put their heart in soul into making this record a reality.
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I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But 'strong character' doesn't mean 'masculine character' - but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way.
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Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.
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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
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Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
