London Quotes - Page 7

• It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

  John Amery

  Russia, People, Acting

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• London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Character, Imagination

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

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• London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Smell, Light

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• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  America Ferrera

  New York, Feelings, Firsts

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

  Anthony Trollope

  Country, Science, Cities

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• I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

  Isla Fisher

  Nice, Good Food, Restaurants

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

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• I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

  Ryan Giggs

  Football, Waiting, Different

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• Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.

  Tom Hooper

  Mother, Kings, Reading

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

  George Benjamin

  Friendly, Needs, World

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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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 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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• London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

  Jourdan Dunn

  Cities, White, Should

  "Jourdan Dunn first black British model to enter Forbes rich list" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

  Britt Ekland

  Beautiful, Children, Cities

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• I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

  Karen Gillan

  Country, Television, Awareness

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• I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

  Christopher Guest

  Children, Growing Up, Trouble

  "Nowt so queer as folk" by Richard Grant, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2004.

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• My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

  Cindy Gallop

  New York, Agency, Office

  "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

  Tadao Ando

  Cities, Paris, Looks

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• I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

  Jim Rogers

  Business, Moving, Thinking

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• London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

  Phife Dawg

  Favourite, Favourite Places

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• I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

  Michael Fassbender

  Jobs, Age, Television

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

  Matthew William Goode

  Children, Body, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

  Dave Hickey

  Want, Not Interested, Has Beens

  "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art" by Edward Helmore, Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

  Shirley Henderson

  Lonely, Jobs, Real

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

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