Irvine Welsh Quotes
I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
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I don't like to look sloppy. I'm a girly-girl.
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I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
