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

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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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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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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

About Big Know Make
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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

Ambition Outstanding Player Wanted
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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.

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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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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.

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You don't kill your way to peace.

Peace Way You Your
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I am basically a private person.

Am Basically I Am Person
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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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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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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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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'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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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

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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.

Any Around Became Cannot
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

Actually Directed Doer Great
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My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Addition Begin Code Door
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
First First Job Honest Job
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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Agency Everything Fascinated Happens
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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.

Appalling Become Body Burden
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Books Found Point Reason
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

Everything Me Professionalism Worries
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Awful Become Cry Films
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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.

Biased First Generate Get
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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I make all my decisions on intuition.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Familiar Ground Spoke Level
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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.

Been Constantly Cultural Fiction
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I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Area Love Gray Between
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Army Darkness Find Intellect
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