Leicester Quotes

• The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

  Eric Idle

  Giving, Ministers, Appeals

  "Do Not Adjust Your Set", www.imdb.com. 1967 - 1969.

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• Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

  Brian Clough

  Genius, Jumpers, Can Do

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

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• I visited a friend in Leicester recently. It was 4am and we all ran around in a circle, six of us. It’s the most fun I’ve had since i was seven. And I thought: it’s not about drink, or drugs, or fancy clubs. It’s about running around in your socks, changing direction in a front room in Leicester.

  Noel Fielding

  Running, Fun, Circles

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• My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

  Eric Idle

  Jobs, War, Leaving

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.

  Stan Collymore

  Soccer, Clubs, Want

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• It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Children, Pain, Coffee

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• Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple of Premiership appearances as a sub before being released to Norwich, in what was then Division One. In November the chance to be player-manager of Barnet came up and soon Cottee was playing in Division Three, but alas it did not work out. By March he was again looking for work and found it, with two sub appearances, at Millwall in Division Two.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Blood, Color, Focus

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• Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.

  Rick Astley

  Thinking, Squares, Eight

  FaceBook post by Rick Astley from Jan 05, 2012

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• Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of Scum. All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.

  Ray Winstone

  Summer, Squares, People

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• As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

  Neil Lennon

  Football, Team, Player

  "Celtic's Neil Lennon: I haven't bettered this Barcelona win in my life" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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