Scottish Quotes - Page 4

• There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

  Bill Forsyth

  Character, People, Phrases

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• My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.

  Sara Sheridan

  Father, Culture, Way

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• For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Adventure, Curiosity

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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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• Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

  Ian Rankin

  Writing, Fiction, Wanted

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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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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• 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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• 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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• ,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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• I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Home, Blood, Names

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• I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!

  Robert Carlyle

  Character, Scripts, Rethinking

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

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• I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

  Tom Conti

  Home, Italian, Past

  "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview With Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• My background is Scottish.

  Melissa George

  Backgrounds

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• I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

  Rupert Friend

  People, Levels, Reputation

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

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• [Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

  James McAvoy

  Believe, Scotland, Violent

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• But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sports, Prayer, Father

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• Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

  Arthur Balfour

  Country, Scotland, Needs

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• Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Scotland, Giving, Hours

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171

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• It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.

  Fabio Capello

  Soccer, Football, Rain

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• Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

  Mel Gibson

  Horse, Scotland, Uncomfortable

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• In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

  Stephen Gardiner

  House, Stones, Littles

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• I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

  Shirley Henderson

  Doom And Gloom, Laughing, Humour

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Father, Doctors

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