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To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
