London Quotes - Page 29

• Nothing falls like London Rain Nothing heals me like you do

  Heather Nova

  Rain, Fall, Like You

  Song: Keep Me, Album: Siren

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• Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

  Orson Welles

  New York, Home, Cities

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• Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

  Bill Gates

  Views, Cities, Gone

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• I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Running, Home

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• My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

  Eva Green

  Mother, Moving, France

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• Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.

  Eva Green

  East London, Weakness, Dessert

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• Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Kissing, Waiting, Aristocracy

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• If nobody is clear on what you're protesting, it's not a protest. Thousands of people gathered in London this week to voice their disapproval of the G-20. Their basic message being, Stop all your globalizing and unite the world!

  Bill Maher

  Voice, People, World

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• The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

  Ken Livingstone

  Ideas, People, Cost

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• On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to him, look how people feel about this. Look how the country has reacted with revulsion to the revelations. So do the decent and sensible thing and reconsider, think again, about your bid for BSkyB.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Thinking, People

  "BSkyB: Clegg calls for Murdoch to 'do the decent thing' and drop deal" by Polly Curtis, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I love the fact you can walk down a street in London and get lost, even though you've lived here 20 years.

  Stephen Moyer

  Years, Facts, Lost

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• London and the south-east of England are very crowded spaces. Wherever a new runway is placed, thousands will be affected. Residents in nearby Longford, Harmondsworth and Sipson, which lie to the north of Heathrow, face having their homes compulsorily purchased for land to build the new runway.

  Tim Bowler

  Lying, Home, Land

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• I went to London to do the stuff. I was like "What am I going to do? What's going to happen?" But then once you start working, you forget all that and you start enjoying what you're doing. Once you enjoy the process, you know that people are going to do the same thing. If you don't enjoy it and just do it like a job, then it's going to be feel that way. That's my theory of doing a movie.

  A. R. Rahman

  Jobs, People, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.

  Ben Richards

  Together, Mouths, Egotistical

  Source: collider.com

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• Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to... to throw that feeling off. So, it's right and fitting that the Beatles came from Liverpool. If they hadn't, I wouldn't have got involved. It wouldn't have interested me. And they wouldn't have hired me.

  Derek Taylor

  Long, Feelings, Way

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• Occasionally, when I lived in London, I would have sex with a girl from an aristocratic family. I always enjoyed doing to them what their ancestors did to my country.

  Craig Ferguson

  Girl, Country, Sex

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• I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.

  Vladimir Putin

  Book, Adventure, Character

  "Vladimir Putin’s Reading List" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2011.

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• The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

  Nicholas Monsarrat

  Maturity, Heaven, Towns

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• Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

  Chris Tucker

  Hurt, Character, Comedy

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• London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Car, People

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• I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

  Christopher Walken

  Flying, Way, Driving

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 01, 2012.

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• I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Two, Three, Cinema

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• The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Boston, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.599, Modern Library

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• I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

  Freida Pinto

  Favourite City, Cities, World

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• I hope to see London once ere I die.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, Dies

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.220

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