East London Quotes

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  Zaha Hadid

  Driving, Surprise, Driven

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• It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

  George W. Bush

  Silly, White, House

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• I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

  Lennox Lewis

  Kids, Boxing, Age

  "Lennox Lewis Answers Your Questions". "Talking Point: Forum", news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 1999.

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• I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.

  Emily Mortimer

  Real, Inspiration, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.

  Eva Green

  Weakness, Dessert, Restaurants

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• My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

  Robert Winston

  Firsts, Students, Medical

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• I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

  Yasmin Paige

  Queens, Trying, Sometimes

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to them than to most contemporary art; they make the city a free space of diverse voices and we shouldn't get all cynical about them just because Banksy made some money. I collaborate sometimes with Krae, who is an old school east London graffiti writer.

  Robert Montgomery

  Art, School, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.

  Rachel Maddow

  Rose, Black, Battle

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