Rory Bremner quote: "One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K."

Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star...
RORY BREMNER

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the ar...
RORY BREMNER

I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global f...
RORY BREMNER

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the midd...
RORY BREMNER

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the ...
RORY BREMNER

Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or ...
RORY BREMNER

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of ...
RORY BREMNER

For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or,...
RORY BREMNER

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so wha...
RORY BREMNER

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able...
RORY BREMNER

I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life ...
RORY BREMNER

For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mou...
RORY BREMNER

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
RORY BREMNER

The problem, with the Conservative Party is that they are actually going backwards. They have now sk...
RORY BREMNER

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed thro...
RORY BREMNER

When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air...
RORY BREMNER

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in ...
RORY BREMNER

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it ...
RORY BREMNER

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would ...
RORY BREMNER

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland...
RORY BREMNER

These officers were doing their job, investigating a crime, and they acted appropriately at all time...
ANNE BREMNER

We believe we have a responsibility to the public.
ANNE BREMNER

We still stand firm in our view that there should be two newspapers. It would be a shame if there wa...
ANNE BREMNER

Any time there's silence like this in a case, the parties have got to be talking. Cases don't just l...
ANNE BREMNER

She [Mary Kay] believes it was a love story ? not a crime story.
ANNE BREMNER

She's still like a teacher, very attentive to him . . . showing him the world.
ANNE BREMNER

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.
EWEN BREMNER

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's go...
EWEN BREMNER

There's good music, and it's a great day to hang out and drink a bottle of wine. This truly is a spe...
GEORGIE BREMNER

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of product...
EWEN BREMNER

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, b...
EWEN BREMNER

Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's...
EWEN BREMNER

I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also ha...
EWEN BREMNER

If I watch something, I want to be wondering what is going to happen next; I want to be engaged in a...
EWEN BREMNER

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It'...
RORY MACLEAN

For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I though...
RORY KINNEAR

Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of nort...
RORY MACLEAN

I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I d...
RORY FREEDMAN

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, ...
RORY STEWART

I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likew...
RORY MCILROY

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to b...
RORY STEWART

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have c...
RORY MCILROY

I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the hist...
RORY STEWART

I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next ...
RORY MCILROY

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I...
RORY MCILROY

People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hi...
RORY CULKIN

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just...
RORY COCHRANE

When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and g...
RORY STEWART

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of ...
RORY MACLEAN

Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and dest...
RORY KINNEAR

I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of ...
RORY KINNEAR

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able ...
RORY MCILROY

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look f...
RORY STEWART

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structur...
RORY KINNEAR

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to D...
RORY MCILROY

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person a...
RORY KENNEDY

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of ...
RORY STEWART

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,'...
RORY MCCANN

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarmin...
RORY MACLEAN

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, y...
RORY KINNEAR

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's ...
RORY STEWART

My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You kn...
RORY MCILROY

In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunati...
RORY MCCANN

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice...
RORY MACLEAN

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on be...
RORY MCILROY

I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.
RORY MCILROY

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I...
RORY MCILROY

I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when y...
RORY MCILROY

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sen...
RORY KINNEAR

I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve condition...
RORY KENNEDY

Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestima...
RORY KINNEAR

Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters.
RORY MACLEAN

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it...
RORY MCILROY

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it...
RORY MCILROY

There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn...
RORY KINNEAR

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talk...
RORY STEWART

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.
RORY FREEDMAN

How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy's got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors....
RORY MCILROY

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.
RORY MACLEAN

I don't think it adds any more pressure on the tournament director or creates any resentment. Hey, I...
RORY SABBATINI

I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role mode...
RORY MCILROY

Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich...
RORY MACLEAN

When I looked at the scoreboard and he was 2-under through four holes, I knew the only person who ha...
RORY SABBATINI

The Republicans have control of the Senate, but the economy is still struggling. Maybe [Republican c...
RORY ROBERTSON

What is needed in out of the way places, especially in the rainy season, is an elephant. They are an...
RORY HENSMAN

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.
RORY MCILROY

The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn&...
RORY MCCANN

I don't know if you can call it a chip on my shoulder or a monkey on my back, but I shed it today.
RORY SABBATINI

I do not cry because I am sad, but because I am angry at my self for feeling negative emotions.
RORY O'CLEARY

I haven't had too many four-shot leads. I felt like I left a lot of shots out there.
RORY SABBATINI

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.
RORY COCHRANE

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, bu...
RORY FREEDMAN

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.
RORY STEWART

(Blocking shots) was kind of her forte. She had a ton of them every game.
RORY HUFF

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact a...
RORY MACLEAN

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could...
RORY KINNEAR

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.
RORY COCHRANE

The markets were a little disappointed that the Fed didn't give any explicit hint that a pause is ar...
RORY ROBERTSON

It kicked some 'Daddy'-butt! ... Word of mouth has been really good. It seems to have been a very go...
RORY BRUER

All people are born with kind hearts.
RORY O'CLEARY

Many men have sought out happiness to find it right in front of them.
RORY O'CLEARY

To like something is to waste time; a true master must be passionate.
RORY O'CLEARY

If a guitar is not regularly tuned, it will be unusable; as it is with life.
RORY O'CLEARY

Choices are what either drives a man to madness or strengthens him; it depends on the man's previous...
RORY O'CLEARY

Evil is not natural, nor is goodness. They are created and defined by people.
RORY O'CLEARY

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought...
RORY KENNEDY

There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyon...
RORY KENNEDY

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I e...
RORY MCCANN

I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and...
RORY MCCANN

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recal...
RORY FREEDMAN

I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, wh...
RORY MCCANN

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside bu...
RORY MCILROY

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in t...
RORY MCILROY

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.
RORY MACLEAN

This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say th...
RORY MCILROY

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.
RORY KINNEAR

One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw.
RORY MACLEAN

Don't crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it's really painful. People think it's necessar...
RORY FREEDMAN

When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the cor...
RORY CULKIN

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with s...
RORY MACLEAN

The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those p...
RORY STEWART

Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy ...
RORY MACLEAN

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium,...
RORY MCILROY

As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of...
RORY MCILROY

The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its d...
RORY MACLEAN

My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver cur...
RORY MACLEAN

I just take a book everywhere with me. It's a habit.
RORY GILMORE

I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Coun...
RORY GILMORE

People are caught up in the debate over what really happened. The whole idea of exorcisms is intrigu...
RORY BRUER

I don't know how much better newer editions are than the old editions, but I guess it depends on the...
RORY SCHMIDT

Otherwise, we'd constantly be at class, if not work.
RORY WOOLDRIDGE

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.
RORY COCHRANE

I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with,the...
RORY MCCANN

One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.

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Rory Bremner

One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.

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