Irvine Welsh Quotes
I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
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I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.
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in darkness and in hedges
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The reality is I meet a lot of actresses. They're wonderful, beautiful ladies. It's pretty hard to stay away from them. You know, there's worse problems to have.
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The reason that I proposed health savings accounts for everybody starting at birth, is because you very quickly accumulate an amount of money that you can use for your interactions with those health care providers.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
