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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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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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 never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
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The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.
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Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
