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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
"Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation."
"We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me."
"The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel."
"I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate."
"The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being."
"I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye."
"But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?"
"When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances."
"Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting."
"See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work."
"If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery."
"It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s."
"My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it."
"To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap."
"The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical."
"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."
"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"
"Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years."
"I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful."
"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."
"My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad."
"I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first."
"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."
"If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!"
"Doctors is all swabs."
"The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me."
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