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Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill. Keith O'Brien

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My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich. Keith O'Brien

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be. Keith O'Brien

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I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage. Keith O'Brien

Marriage Sacrament Wonder Celibate Might Appreciate

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square. Keith O'Brien

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Most of my memories are the sound of rain on caravan roofs. Kelly Macdonald

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I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project. Kelly Macdonald

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People don't change very much, and the things life ends up being about don't change from generation to generation. Life is about love. And people's stories don't really change. Your environment changes dramatically, technology changes, but people don't change, in the way our minds work. Kelly Macdonald

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They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script. Kelly Macdonald

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I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero. Kelly Macdonald

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Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went to Grandma and Grandad's caravan near Aberfoyle. Kelly Macdonald

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I was interested in drama, but it never seemed like a real profession somehow. It was so outside my experience, and I probably wouldn't have had the confidence for drama school, though I did send off for an application form. Kelly Macdonald

It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode. Kelly Macdonald

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I find just being on set embarrassing. Mortifying. And that's with all my clothes on. Kelly Macdonald

Clothes Embarrassing Find Just Being Set

New Mexico was such a strange place; it was like filming on Mars. Kelly Macdonald

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Sometimes I bite off a fingernail to use as a toothpick. Nasty. Kelly Macdonald

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I walk away from jobs generally feeling good about it and that I've done a good job. And it's always slightly deflating when I see the film thing because it's still me up there. Kelly Macdonald

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