Irvine Welsh Quotes
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It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Natalie Wood
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
Tanith Lee
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
Rakul Preet Singh
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I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
Pankaj Mishra
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
Wayne Kramer
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
F. H. Bradley
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
Nathaniel Rateliff
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
Zig Ziglar
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
Adam Clymer
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
Ian McShane
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
Halle Berry
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
Wallace Shawn
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
Gary Oldman
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
John Calvin
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What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.
Christopher Hitchens
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A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
Derek Walcott
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Irvine Welsh