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Irvine Welsh Quotes

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: September 27, 1961

Topics

Government Television Become Priest

I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

Listening Year Living Last Different

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

Fun You Talk Knowing Comedians Get

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

Wisdom Today Trust Challenges Values

We've changed a lot of things to help certain groups of people. We widened the lane from 6 feet to 12 feet to 16 feet to make it so the big guys aren't as dominant. Well, why didn't we just say, 'You've got to learn to play against them in the post?'

People Feet Learn Help You Play

You can only improve so much in training.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Training You Improve Only Much

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mind Blind End Obedience Will

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

Year First University Read Pages

Communication is something we all take for granted.

Miriam Margolyes

Communication Take For Granted Take

Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.

Judah Friedlander

Time Commitment Night Doing Year

I've had a lot of baptism by fire.

Fire Baptism Lot Had

Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.

Home Mind Me Look Play Sitting

I suffered a stroke in 2002 that made everything else in my life that happened to that point pale in comparison.

Life My Life Comparison Everything

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