Irvine Welsh Quotes
There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.
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To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
