London Quotes - Page 30

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

Naveen Andrews

Believe, Home, People

"I was seen as either a junkie or a drunk" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2008.

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The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

Hayley Atwell

Survival Mode, Mind, Different

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I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

Hayley Atwell

Dad, Aunt, Virginia

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My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

Natasha Bedingfield

Girl, Blood, Way

"Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.

Nicole Beharie

Father, Littles, Bugs

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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Antony Beevor

Firsts, Excitement, Novel

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I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.

Delta Burke

Want

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In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

Jim Broadbent

Facts

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I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.

Saffron Burrows

Nice, Two, Paris

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As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

Zach Braff

Sports, Dad, School

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I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.

Eliza Coupe

New York, Writing, Two

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Diane Abbott

Country, Gun, Cities

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Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Diane Abbott

Looks, Village, Outsiders

"Politicians interview pundits: Diane Abbott and Nick Robinson". Interview with Nick Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

Graham Coxon

People, Healthy, Manchester

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When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

Graham Coxon

Stuff, Places To Go, Firsts

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Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

Graham Coxon

Mean, Pride, Thinking

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Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Gentleman, Brown

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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.

P. Chidambaram

Mean, Independent, Exercise

"Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?

Peter Carey

Thinking, Done, Littles

"Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.

Piers Corbyn

Queens, College, Class

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When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Roman Coppola

Art, Fans, Rooms

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

Simon Callow

Growing Up, Sunday, Down And

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Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

Vince Cable

Team, Office, Disaster

Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.

Alexis Denisof

Summer, School, Years

Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.

Arthur Darvill

Theatre, Elements, Staring

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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