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… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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