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Irvine Welsh

"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'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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"My first vocation was dance."

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"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."

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"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."

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"I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance."

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"How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light."

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