Irvine Welsh Quotes
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things.
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My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
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Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
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People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
