"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself."

Act, Being

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"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself."

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"There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society."

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"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."

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"Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level."

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"When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music."

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"When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it."

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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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"I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology."

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"I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction."

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"When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies."

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"It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more."

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"I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right."

Queen Latifah, American Musician

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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."

Raymond Queneau, French Poet

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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."

Deborah Tannen, American Sociologist

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"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."

Roger Wicker, American Politician

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"And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America."

Adam Schiff, American Politician

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"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."

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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."

Robert Motherwell, American Artist

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