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My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things. Morag Joss

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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. Muriel Spark

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If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic. Muriel Spark

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One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. Muriel Spark

Out Boredom See Only Psychiatrist Should

In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don't have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell. Neve McIntosh

You Church Hell Believe Definitely Scotland Heaven Episcopalian

Audiences are a wee bit more chatty in New York than in London. Neve McIntosh

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I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl. Neve McIntosh

Doctor Girl Wee Since Doctor Who Been Fan Who

You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing. Neve McIntosh

You Director Meet Find Pretty Understand Audition Go Want Little Them Little Thing Thing Bring Pull

Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid. Neve McIntosh

Me You People Some People Some Persona Get Just Afraid Bring

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them. Neve McIntosh

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My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it. Neve McIntosh

Tea Once Bad Over Am Cup Get Hold Really Even

I love being in London, where I live, for the shops, the bars and the clubs - but I equally enjoy going to my mum's house in Ayrshire and being able to sit on a cliff by the sea. Neve McIntosh

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I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back. Neve McIntosh

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Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well. Nicola Sturgeon

You Wonderful Spicy Delicious Vegetarian Well Get Tasty

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat. Nicola Sturgeon

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I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible. Nicola Sturgeon

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