Scottish Quotes - Page 2

• I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

  David Duchovny

  Half, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was beguiling to live in a country, Scotland, that didn't look enough like itself to be a location for its own movies... I remember consulting a film book and discovering that Arthur Freed decided to shoot Brigadoon in Hollywood because nowhere in Scotland looked Scottish enough.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Country, Book, Scotland

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• Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.

  Graeme Souness

  Football, Hammers, Throwers

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• Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.

  John Hamill

  Scotland, Gentleman, Accepted

  John Hamill (1986). “The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry”, HarperCollins

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• If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Want Something, Kilts, Ifs

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• 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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, People, Trying

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• Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

  Joey McIntyre

  Accents, Know How, Knows

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• If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Wall, Stupid, Bagpipes

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• I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

  Alexander Stoddart

  Art, Men, Crowds

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• At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice. "'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Hair, Hands, People

  Diana Gabaldon (1997). “Drums of Autumn”

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• [Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

  Robert Burns

  Song, Modern, Eccentricity

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• Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

  Edgar Meyer

  Jazz, Classical Music, Century

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• I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Dancing, Three

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

  David Duchovny

  Blood, Proud

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• My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

  John Barrowman

  America, Work Ethic, Sides

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• I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.

  Helen McCrory

  Hair, Ordinary, Records

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• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  Callum Keith Rennie

  Actors, Scots, Gangsters

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• God's love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times. The Scottish writer George MacDonald said, "It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in his presence." God loves us as we are right now! That's one of the things I'm most grateful for. I love the freedom to be myself in God. I pray that a year from now, five years from now, I will be a godlier woman, but I know God won't love me any more than he does right this minute.

  Sheila Walsh

  God, Grateful, Heart

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• It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

  Diane Kruger

  Christmas, Football, Night

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• My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

  Johann Lamont

  Party, Fighting, Poverty

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• I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

  Hugh Laurie

  Scotland, Enlightenment, May

  Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• ,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

  Billy Connolly

  Soccer, Football, People

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• Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Scotsmen

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• The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty girls in the show. I realized; I found out very early on, that the lead comic gets the girl. So, that was cool. When I went to university, I studied Economic Social History. And drama. That kind of got me into it. My main passion was to make films. It was never to be an actor. At that time, there weren't many opportunities for a working class Scottish actor. It was kind of an English thing. And it required a certain mannered cerebral acting style that I couldn't relate to.

  Peter Mullan

  Girl, Drama, Passion

  "AGENT ORANGE: A talk with director Peter Mullan about The Magdalene Sisters!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 9, 2003.

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• I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

  Archie Panjabi

  Brother, Boys, Blue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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