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

Act Any Being Concept
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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
Blank Blank Page Enjoy Freedom
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

Exhausted Feel Friendships Guys
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

Making Making Money Money Need
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Celtic Clubs Even Everybody
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Cricket Game Match Pressure
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The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

Best Carries Day Pressure
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Because Fiction Like More
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

Cricket Depend Future Goes
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Experience Fact Helped In Fact
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

About Big Know Make
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Believed Imagined Just Myself
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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

Ambition Outstanding Player Wanted
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But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

Achieve Goals Had Hard
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

Always Believed I Think Key
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And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

Handled Learn Play Pressure
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

Best Does Going Homework
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But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

Day Down How Performs
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Big Big Problem Corruption Personally
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Accountability Audit Commission Feel
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

Good Government Local Local Government
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

Burning Fire House Out
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Achieving Aid Better Colonialism
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

Back Balance Colonialism Fight
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Another Because Chance Common
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You don't kill your way to peace.

Peace Way You Your
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Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

Anti War Because Called Been
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Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

Hearts Minds People Terrorism
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I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

Hearts Minds Muslim Muslim World
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Area Authority Country Easily
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

Always Came I Came Politics
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

Agent Am Critics Doing
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The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

Been Dollars Few Million
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

Brought Extremists Mainstream Pakistan
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Get Hope Never Old
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Awaiting Flesh I Write Images
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Art Conscience Dark Deep
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Being Difference Everything More
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I always work with 18 friends.

Always Friends Work Friendship
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
Anywhere Go Hate Travel
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I am very shy with people I don't know.

Am I Am Know People
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

Belief Christian Heart Jesus
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

Am Autobiographical Dream Emotions
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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.

About Arts Because Business
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Advantage Appear Create Demons
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Almost Beat Best Best Way
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
About Day Death Gone
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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.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

Always Because Circumstance Extreme
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Chapters Opening Genre Read
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