Irvine Welsh Quotes
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
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The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.
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And writing in a foreign language, you come to realise how words create not only a single image but a series of images, so that if the image created in the mind of the writer is different from the image in the mind of the reader, there will not be complete understanding between them.
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I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
