When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
Quotes about edinburgh (15 Quotes)
For the moment the priority has to be looking after the interests of players at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Borders, but while it is said the club scene is amateur there is no getting away from the fact players there are semi-pro albeit mostly imports.
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
It is way too early, says McColgan, to be critical of Dave Collins, the former professor of physical education and sport performance at Edinburgh University, who took over as UK Athletics performance director in March. He's not someone I know personally and I don't know too much about his background, so I can't comment on him, ... but it's certainly too early to pass judgment.
When you make a little film without stars and not in English, you just hope you get into international festivals, so we didn't know if we'd get accepted in competition in Edinburgh or Toronto. Each one seemed to bring attention to the film to audiences around the world. We originally just wanted it to play in London, New York and Los Angeles like most small films do.
At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.
Glasgow did really well for basically giving people a good time. To come second to London and just pip Edinburgh, which has been a winner in past years, is a superb achievement.
I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
The way to Jesus is not by Cambridge and Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare or the poets It is over an old-fashioned hill called Calvary. (Rodney
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and one's a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.
We've had a great build up and now I'm excited about the new season, the same as everyone else at Edinburgh. We're just desperate to play games and desperate to put into action the fitness training we've gone through.