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I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to…

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He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the…

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“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather…

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“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?”

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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…

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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain,…

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If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make…

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There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too…

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If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks.…

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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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If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes…

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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…

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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

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“Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be.…

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I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the…

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In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

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“I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.”

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When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to…

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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you…

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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think…

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I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again…

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“writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never…

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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people…

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“This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam … that poison…

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