Irvine Welsh Quotes
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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The Democratic plan in the 'Affordable Care Act' has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side.
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Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
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As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.
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My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
