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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

Irvine Welsh

Recitation: by Male by Female

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HouseFantasyRealismUrbanAcid

I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I'd go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn't send us the right order and demand they fix it. I've tried to make that right whenever I could.

Jim Parrack

FoodMoneyShortFastGoSometimes

I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

Tom Ford

TimeCalmLearnLongYouLiving

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

Rob Manuel

AmazingGameMagicHoodYouGaming

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

LoveYourselfReligionLove Yourself

I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

Joy Harjo

NeverEveryoneFitKnewIndianDad

I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing all sorts of stuff that I've never played before while the mind - and the body - still functions.

Diana Rigg

HopeMindYouBodyNeverComplacent

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

Douglas Coupland

DailyTechnologyTimeMomentPeople

I've realized that I really like spending time in the countryside and having a garden.

Doutzen Kroes

TimeSpending TimeGardenCountryside

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

Drew Carey

JobDreamStarWantedTVComic

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

CommunityPeopleCrazyCrazy People

Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard growing up - I knew I was going to hell before anyone ever told me that I was. People found comfort in this all-knowing source, but I felt frightened and found out. I developed some weird and very dramatic complexes.

Perfume Genius

GodPeopleMeGrowing UpHellWeird

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

Richard Simmons

TiredPeopleBelieveNegativityKnow

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