London Quotes - Page 28

• I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

  Boy George

  Stars, Years, Crowds

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.

  Diane Kruger

  Drama, School, Years

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE, Playing a Cop with Asperger’s, Working with Co-Star Demian Bichir, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2013.

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• When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.

  Martin Schulz

  Cutting, Technology, Ongoing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.

  Michael Strong

  New York, Powerful, Years

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• I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.

  Candice Accola

  Country, Growing Up, Dad

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• The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, Brave, Forever

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• Many people in my constituency come to see me absolutely distraught at the prospect of losing their private rented flat because of the imposition of a housing benefit cut. Social cleansing is going on in all of central London because of the benefit cap. That is a disgraceful situation.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Cutting, People, Cleansing

  "West Coast Rail Franchise". House of Commons meeting, Oral Answers to Questions, publications.parliament.uk. December 6, 2012.

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• People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Jobs, Numbers, People

  "Column 856". Daily Hansard - Debate, publications.parliament.uk. March 19, 2013.

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• If someone walked along any high street anywhere in London, and probably anywhere in the country, and looked into a letting agency, they would see a sign saying, 'No benefits here.' In other words, anyone in receipt of a state benefit is not allowed to apply for a private rented flat from that agent.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Agency, Saying No

  House of Commons Debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. February 26, 2013.

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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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• One of my fondest memories was when I was in London as a young, independent businesswoman and stayed at Claridge's. I knew I had made it. To me, Claridge's is the most glamourous hotel in the world; I regard it as my home away from home. I am honoured to become part of the hotel's legacy and rich design history.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Memories, Home, Independent

  "DVF For Claridge's" by Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. March 04, 2010.

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• I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

  Melissa George

  Queens, Mean, Love Is

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• You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Long, Streets, Can Do

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• I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.

  Tom Ford

  America, Ties, Suits

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• I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

  Tom Ford

  Running, Opposites, United States

  "My List: Tom Ford in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2012.

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• With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

  Michael Gove

  Struggle, Gnats, Pace

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• Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

  Eric Fellner

  Games, Cry, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I didn't have anything to do with selecting IFC. I don't have anything to do with distribution, or business, or marketing, but think it's a good choice by Graham, and perfect for London Boulevard. It gets the picture straight into a dialog with the public, and it doesn't set the sights too high. They're very hip at IFC, and they get the film. The cineplex hasn't done film any favors as an art form.

  William Monahan

  Art, Thinking, Sight

  Source: collider.com

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• I cut London Boulevard pretty aggressively, but I liked the transitions and the elliptical feel that I got. It's not an exceptionally easy film to follow. You have to know that the paparazzo looks like Mark David Chapman. He hasn't got an expositional sign on him.

  William Monahan

  Cutting, Transition, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.

  Rachel Maddow

  East London, Rose, Black

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• Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.

  Rachel Maddow

  Song, Black, Battle

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• I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

  Sally Phillips

  Kids, Theatre, Bed

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• London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

  Luke Treadaway

  People, Creative, Creative People

  "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Block, Fog

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• An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.

  John Updike

  New York, Boston, Cities

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