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Irvine Welsh Quotes

I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'

Irvine Welsh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Character People Trying I Can Say

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

John Travolta

Life Learning Experience Gentleman

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.

Amy Cuddy

Power Struggle Language Body More

Customers are very demanding and well informed.

Stefano Gabbana

Informed Well Customers Demanding

How can the country that created electricity, the light bulb, modern cinema as we know it, and the Oscar Meyer Weenie Whistle not be purely awesome?

Steven Crowder

Light Electricity Cinema Country

I traded my 2002 Silverado in for the Trailblazer, and after my second fight, I got a win bonus. It was the knockout-of-the-night bonus, $50,000, and I paid the rest of my car off, and I gave it to my mother because I had a sponsorship with a Chevy dealership.

Stipe Miocic

Mother Car Fight Win Rest Chevy

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Marriage Course Other

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Joyce Carol Oates

New York Enjoy New Review Books

The Federal Reserve ranks among the most transparent central banks. We publish a summary of our balance sheet every week. Our financial statements are audited annually by an outside auditor and made public. Every security we hold is listed on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Janet Yellen

Balance New York Financial Week New

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Chrissie Hynde

Guitar Enough Long You Look Play

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

Christine Quinn

Welcome New York City Long New

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

Alison Jackson

Perception You Own Your Interested

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

Penny Marshall

Working