Irvine Welsh Quotes
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Far in a western brooklandThat bred me long agoThe poplars stand and trembleBy pools I used to know.
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It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
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When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
