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.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Business
  • Lawyer
  • Camera

• 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.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

  

  J. Cole
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Personality
  • Medical
  • Autism

• 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.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Finesse

• They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Hope
  • Will
  • Go

• Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Cricket

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Evolution
  • Brains

• 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?

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • Women
  • Family

• Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

  

  Piers Anthony
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Country

• Growing up, I was listening to a ton of Motown music, Otis Redding, Aretha, and then there was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin. These were all people that I felt as though they truly felt every single lyric they said, and they weren't afraid of imperfection.

  

  Bishop Briggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!

  

  Jim Diamond
  • Good

• Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Silence