Irvine Welsh Quotes

When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.

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• When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Work
  • Game
  • Style

• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Time
  • Progress
  • New

• I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Think
  • Rock

• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Cooperation

• Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • You
  • Just
  • Appreciate

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Enemy
  • First

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

  

  Beck
  • Fun
  • Rap
  • Means

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • Up
  • Friends

• I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Death
  • Revenge

• I had worked in Hindi films like 'Jaago,' 'Abra Ka Dabra,' 'Koi Mil Gaya,' but 'Desamuduru' was a different experience.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Like

• I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

  

  Benjamin Ávila
  • Light
  • Actors
  • Happening

• I don’t think that I am the most informed or that I’ve earned my place to be a political spokes-voice. So I try to keep that type of politic out of my songwriting and I do it more in my personal life. I do a lot of fundraising, I do a lot of awareness raising through charity fundraising and lots of stuff that I do via eBay or my website, and I try to donate to causes that are fighting Trump’s racist system or the awful effects that Brexit is going to have.

  

  Bright Light Bright Light
  • Voice
  • Politic
  • Fundraiser

• When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Light
  • Rest