"I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry."
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"I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling."
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"There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it."
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"Although, okay, in Scotland, the boys wear the skirts. But as far as pop culture, women were on the forefront of the unisex movement and I'm grateful to you."
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"We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland."
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"After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it."
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"There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'."
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"Scotland is the Canada of England!"
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"I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun."
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"The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border."
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"I hate it when people romanticize Scotland."
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"Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur."
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"She knew what he had in mind. He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday. There was no doubt as to what her answer would be."
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"The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football."
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"I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua."
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"I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own."
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"My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else."
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"We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time."
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"I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up to me. They're always really polite. It's nice, it's fun and good to speak to people who aren't involved in tennis, but some have this habit of just staring at me and that makes me really self-conscious. I'd rather they came up and said hello."
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"The main thing in a cup tie is to get through."
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