London Quotes - Page 34

• If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

  Jessie Ware

  Passion, Winning, Always Trying

  "Jessie Ware: 'I want to be a private pop star, like Sade or Annie Lennox'" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

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• Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.

  Rebecca Loos

  Apartment, Stills

  "Rebecca Loos says being a new mum is better than having affairs with footballers" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2010.

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• In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Tubes

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

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• In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

  Carey Mulligan

  Eye, People, Pavement

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• My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

  Debbie Macomber

  Children, Wall, Names

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• I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

  Denise Mina

  Grew Up, Feeding, Disgusting

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• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  Edgar Wright

  Art, Night, Light

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

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• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  Rachel Weisz

  Girl, Blow, Dresses

  "Rachel Weisz Wants Botox Banned for Actors Like 'Steroids Are for Sportsmen'". www.foxnews.com. July 07, 2009.

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• I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

  Rachel Zoe

  New York, Play, Paris

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• I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Girl, Fashion, Hair

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• Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.

  Will Self

  Cities, People, Muse

  "In the beginning" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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• My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Mother, Stars, Regret

  "Bruce Forsyth: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sacrifice, Monogamy, Bloody

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• Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

  Noel Gallagher

  America, World

  "Noel Gallagher on going solo and working with hippies". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2012.

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• London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, New York, Style

  "Alexa Chung: the forces that move fashion" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

  Ken Adam

  Art, Class, Differences

  "Sir Ken Adam on Designing James Bond Sets and Working With Kubrick". Interview with Steve Karras, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.

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• I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

  Oksana Chusovitina

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• For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

  Victor Pinchuk

  Art, New York, Important

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• Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

  Charlie Brooker

  Skills, Oxford, People

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• I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

  Ed Balls

  Government, Saving, Next

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• If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!

  Pierre Daninos

  Dog, Believe, Animal

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• If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

  Steve McFadden

  Kids, Ideas, Acting

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• The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, Memories, July

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• We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, July, Bombers

  "This 7/7 report wasn't good enough" by Pauline Neville-Jones, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2009.

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• London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

  Peter York

  Art, Media, Conquest

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