Edinburgh Quotes

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
J. K. Rowling

Respect, Live, Big

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'
Tom Hiddleston

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
Jeffrey Archer

Travel, Leaving, Land

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.
Alexander McCall Smith

Used, City, Haughty

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.
Paul Nurse

Long, Thought, Dark

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
Davy Jones

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
Norman MacCaig

Poetry, Thought, Writer

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Irvine Welsh

Society, Sad, Stuff

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
Gerard Butler

Fun, Rock, Training

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
Carol Ann Duffy

Children, Theatre, City

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.
Penelope Keith

Beautiful, Black, House

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
Rory Bremner

Education, School, Public

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.
Jamie Muir

Art, Someone, Down

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.
Nik Kershaw

Good, Real, Keep

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
Magnus Magnusson

Best, Living, Both

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