Irvine Welsh Quotes
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.
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There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.
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Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
