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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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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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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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy - the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps - to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.
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To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.
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I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.
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Cupid's not the only one with an arrow," I scowled
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Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
