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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.
- Rory Bremner
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#Division
#Resources
#Will
It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.
- Rory Bremner
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#Me
#Mind
#Reading
#Words
Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.
- Rory Bremner
#Comedy
#Debate
#Independence
#More
#Room
When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
- Rory Bremner
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#Childhood
#Me
#Medical
#Suffering
I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
- Rory Bremner
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#I Am
#Just
#Menacing
#Rather
British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
- Rory Bremner
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#Moving
#New
#Politics
#Target
When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
- Rory Bremner
#Bird
#Comedians
#Fortune
#Just
#Well
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
- Rory Bremner
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#Human
#Liberty
#Rights
#Saying
When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.
- Rory Bremner
#Arrogance
#Government
#Power
#Vision
Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.
- Rory Bremner
#Everything
#Hotel
#Location
#Rather
#Sit
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.
- Rory Bremner
#Ancestors
#Leisure
#Truth
#Website
I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.
- Rory Bremner
#Burn
#Mediterranean
#Nobody
#Skin
#Tell
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
- Rory Bremner
#Clever
#People
#Really
#Say
#Swift
If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.
- Rory Bremner
#Alex
#Oil
#Out
#Reduced
#Runs
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.
- Rory Bremner
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#Country
#Diversity
#Great
I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, 'Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?' until I realized that's exactly what he was thinking.
- Rory Bremner
#Earth
#Now
#Remember
#Thinking
#Well
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
- Rory Bremner
#City
#Great
#Now
#Restaurant
#Voice
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
- Rory Bremner
#First
#Impression
#Public
#Teacher
I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.
- Rory Bremner
#Able
#Democracy
#Important
#Laugh
#Power
Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.
- Rory Bremner
#Go
#Independence
#Like
#Over
#Whether
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