Brighton Quotes

• Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

  Peter James

  Beautiful, Dark, Cities

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

  Peter James

  Character, Thinking, Crime

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Moving, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we have the coast road in front of us and the Sussex Downs just 10 minutes behind us.

  Julie Burchill

  London, Faces, Sides

  "Things I've never done before: My first time driving" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2008.

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• I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

  Brian Eno

  Gay, Sea, San Francisco

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• What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

  Lynne Truss

  Home, People, Gone

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• I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Lord

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• There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton

  Robbie Savage

  Football, Kids, Play

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• I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

  Katie Price

  Travel, Hate, People

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• In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.

  Neil Innes

  Moon, Journey, Thinking

  Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.

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• Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

  Paul McGann

  Sleep, Giving, Give Me

  "This Much I Know: Paul McGann". www.theguardian.com. June 05, 2011.

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• Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.

  Kenny Everett

  Funny, Travel, Insightful

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• I've always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East Brighton riding in your cart, and the next moment you are in a completely different world.

  Robert Dessaix

  Fascination, Riding, Different

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.

  Peter James

  Communication, Airports, Sea

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• And Brighton have beaten Southampton 4-2 which is exactly the same result as last year when they won 3-1

  Des Lynam

  Football, Years, Lasts

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• I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Girl, Depressing, Cancer

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• Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of which is a huge recreational drug market. It's the favoured place to live in the UK for first division criminals.

  Peter James

  Gay, Class, Two

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

  Graham Greene

  Rocks, People, Looks

  Graham Greene (1947). “Brighton rock”

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• I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

  Julie Burchill

  Summer, Hands, Mixtures

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

  Natascha McElhone

  Father, Alternatives, Natural

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

  Katie Price

  Majority, London, Hometown

  "Katie Price is right". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.

  Julie Burchill

  Country, Thinking, Light

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, You should give it a go in London.

  James Bay

  Night, Years, Two

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• In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I also changed from black and white to color. Later that year, I started my project on New Brighton called The Last Resort. However, the first project I shot in colour was composed of urban scenes from Liverpool. This image was on the second roll of film. It's the first good photo I made in this new chapter of my work.

  Martin Parr

  Black And White, Color, Years

  "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2015.

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• ...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "

  William Dalrymple

  Country, Kings, Coffee

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