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Irvine Welsh Quotes

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power You Kind Corrupt Get Just

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

Creative School College High School

You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.

People You Glass See Through Like

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Failure Women Challenge Men Try

I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.

Sterling Knight

Music Fun Listen Always Sing Rather

Fear has been good to yours truly.

Good Fear Yours Been Truly

I'm partial to the Cornish coast, as it's near where I grew up in Plymouth. The views across the water are stunning. I love walking along the sandy beaches and the seafront paths.

Love Water Walking Paths Up Where

I think it's not an accident that you don't have that many Asian American women writers who are breaking out. I don't think it's an accident that you don't have that many Asian American writers, either women or men. I don't think that immigrants are encouraged to become artists. That's very gendered and racialized and ethnicized.

Women Men Think American You Become

The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond or the spice laurel of the heights.

Strength Sea Trees Heights Spice

There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.

Christopher McQuarrie

Gun Top Role Maverick Which

We boil at different degrees.

Anger Different Boil Degrees

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

Mother Me Know Got Lot

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Failure You Sometimes Film Reasons

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