My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I’d much rather be Scottish than English. Rupert Friend Read Quote
I still can’t believe I won the Olympics. That’s what I feel right now – completely alive as a human being. It’s a really beautiful moment. Clara Hughes Read Quote
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same. Iris Murdoch Read Quote
A lot of people didn’t know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it. Matthew Desmond Read Quote
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent. Peter Carey Read Quote
