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Irvine Welsh Quotes

As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Thinking You Move Different Soon

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

Building London Way Up Miles Us

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.

People Think Bad True Backwards Rap

The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.

Process Guitar Aesthetic You Try

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

Money Space Create Stop Talk Need

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

Me Thinking Laugh Intellectual Actor

I think irony precludes really feeling deeply about anything. I just didn't want to be that kind of writer who found nothing that wasn't worth indictment. I admire Willa Cather so much because she was unafraid to have big feelings and put them on the page. I just want to be able to believe in things.

Believe Think Worth Feeling Feelings

I'm proud of me.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

Leader Government Fight Values Wrong

From orphanages to space colonies, it was all shallow but endearingly enthusiastic futurism. Gingrich was the kind of person who read a book or two on something and would then be quite afire as to how this was going to fit into some shining future.

Future Space Book Person Kind Two

I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

Trust I Am Lucky Whom Am

When I first appeared in the media, it was rare to see trans people on TV, and young trans kids were unheard of.

People Media Young First See Rare

The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.

Christoph Waltz

Art Artist True Myth Bohemian Been

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