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Thir must be less tae life than this
Irvine Welsh
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Irvine Welsh
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: September 27
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Film Actor
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I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.
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Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so precarious. Even salaried people in the West now feel this sense of being trapped, not having the freedom to strike out.
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Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
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It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.
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How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.
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I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.
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I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.
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If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.
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How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?
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When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through something instead of just standing up in a bookstore.
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It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting.
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[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same league as Filth.
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Nothing is covered adequately by the BBC. The BBC has become the biggest disappointment - they're just so terrified. And in a way it's not their fault: the parties have used them as a political football.
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The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.
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I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things.
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It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state, I can make my own choices. But I've got things to look forward to, and places to go and if that'd been me there forty years ago, when I was a young kid in Muirhouse, it might've been a different story.
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[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.
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Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
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Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
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