Irvine Welsh Quotes
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
