Edinburgh quotes
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There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.
-- Alan Bold -
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
-- Alan Bold -
I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
-- Alan Rickman -
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.
-- David Nicholls -
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My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
-- Davy Jones -
It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
-- Douglas Alexander -
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine...
-- Frederic Chopin -
It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.
-- Ian Rankin -
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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 -
I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.
-- Jamie Bell -
Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.
-- Jeffery Deaver -
For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.
-- Muriel Spark -
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Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.
-- Nik Kershaw -
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
-- Norman MacCaig -
Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.
-- Rupert Friend -
I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
-- Shirley Manson -
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When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.
-- Rhys Darby -
I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.
-- Rose Leslie
