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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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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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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I remember meeting my manager Eamonn for the very first time, and one of the first things he said to me was, 'You're fat. The first thing you need to go is get to a gym.' It was quite a wake-up call. I got a bit angry initially, like, 'The cheek of him', but I'm quite a pragmatic and thick-skinned person, so I just went ahead and joined the gym.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.
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Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.
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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.
