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“[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.”

James Robertson

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Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

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The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of…

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“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's always just below the surface. And I like the way you deal with religion. One century you're up to your lugs in it, the next you're trading the whole apparatus in for Sunday superstores. Praise the Lord and…

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There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

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Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse;…

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It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

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“People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well, perhaps. But you could also argue that we…

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There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

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