London Quotes - Page 23

• New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.

  Robert De Niro

  New York, Paris, Chaos

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Cycling

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• Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Jordan

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• I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.

  Jackie Collins

  Teenager, Los Angeles, My Sister

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• London is like a collection of hills. There are lots of desirable spots and lots of space in between. The idea of elbowing people out of your way to get somewhere - literally or metaphorically - seems foreign here.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Ideas, Space, People

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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• I wrote a mad, passionate letter to the best restaurant in the UK, Le Gavroche in London, and asked if I could work for them. They gave me a job as a dishwasher (Colin laughs). For me that was a joy because I had a foot in the door of this world class restaurant. Just being around the buzz and the pots and pans and the wonderful food and all this produce that was coming in, that was the start of Paul Rankin the chef.

  Paul Rankin

  Jobs, Feet, Doors

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.

  Mike Leigh

  Hollywood, Saws, England

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.

  Russell Hoban

  Turtles, Soup, Green

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• I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Home, England, Apartment

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

  Jason Flemyng

  Growing Up, Community, Pillars

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing out leaflets on London's Oxford Street. I got pushed over by these little herberts and given a good shoe-in.

  Jason Flemyng

  Jobs, Oxford, Dressing Up

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

  Tony Blackburn

  Men, Years, Laughing

  "Interrogation: Tony Blackburn". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.

  Emily Mortimer

  Real, Inspiration, East London

  Source: collider.com

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• Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

  Voltaire

  Play, Imagination, Savages

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• You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

  David Frost

  New York, Two, Way

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• In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

  John Osborne

  Tea, Scandal, Sweeteners

  John Osborne, Henry Fielding (2011). “Tom Jones”, p.114, Oberon Books

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• The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

  Neil Tennant

  Song, Army, Two

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

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• Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.

  David Mitchell

  Sex, Gay, Cities

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• Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.

  Larry King

  Smart, Ignorance, Average

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• I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

  Adam Ant

  Thinking, Meat, Gorillas

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• I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

  John Dyer

  Years, Degrees, Different

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• When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Children, Together

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• I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

  Douglas Kennedy

  New York, Writing, Two

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• If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

  Colin Wilson

  Party, Ifs

  "Where the outsider went next". Interview with Lisa Gee, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.

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• A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

  Lord Byron

  Dirty, Eye, Sight

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