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Irvine Welsh
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 27
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Everything in the street today seems soft focus.
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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
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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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I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.
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Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.
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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 can't stand still I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.
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Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.
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How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.
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I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.
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Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.
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If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.
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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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