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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It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
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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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My goal is to be the women's champion, to main event on a regular basis, to be at 'WrestleMania.'
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Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.
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At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.
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Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
