Irvine Welsh Quotes
'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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Throughout my career, I wouldn't say my roles have been based on my being considered eye candy.
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Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself.
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
