Irvine Welsh reveals he never had children because he feared he would be an absent father - Daily Record
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The Trainspotting author said he had never felt mature enough and wanted to travel.
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Irvine Welsh reveals he never had children because he feared he would be an absent father - Daily Record
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TIL In Trainspotting (1996) the cast had to re-record the first 20 minutes of the film and tone down their accents all because they were worried American ears wouldn't immediately be able to understand the dialect. Here's the classic monologue with subtitles
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Prometheus (2012 film) - Wikipedia
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Christian Lewis was healed by a four-legged friend - and the woman he fell in love with
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Famous English Authors by Libraries of Hope - Issuu
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Irvine Welsh - News, views, gossip, pictures, video - Daily Record
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Irvine Welsh on almost acting, wild parties, travel and 25 years of smash-hit film - Daily Record
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December 1, 2020: Volume LXXXVIII, No 23 by Kirkus Reviews - Issuu
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When George Best met Blondie, and how it all ended at Hibernian - Belfast Live
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The first chapter of the book behind Irvine Welsh's new TV series, Crime
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A Scholarly Edition of Susan Ferrier's The Inheritance A Thesis
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Irvine Welsh reveals he never had children because he feared he would be an absent father - Daily Record
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Pushing Ahead of the Dame David Bowie, song by song
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Irvine Welsh on almost acting, wild parties, travel and 25 years of smash-hit film - Daily Record
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Playwright David Storey memoirs reveal the trauma of a man: Too clever to be happy