Irvine Welsh Quotes
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
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Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
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A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
