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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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220 pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110 pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong?
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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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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.
