Irvine Welsh Quotes
Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naive and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."
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There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
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It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.
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Never underestimate the incompetence of government.
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Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.
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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
