Irvine Welsh Quotes
Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
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It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.
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Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.
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My first pair of Jordans, I wore them all the time. I would wear them to school; I always had them on.
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We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
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Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
