London Quotes - Page 30

• A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time...so that's how it all came about

  Frances Ruffelle

  Parent, Listening, Band

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• I record at the same place [Toe Rag or FatSounds Studios in London], with the same people [Liam Watson at Toe Rag and Ed Deegan at Fatsounds], every time. It makes it effortless, and another reason for the vast output when I do go in and record stuff.

  Holly Golightly

  People, Rags, Records

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• I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds.

  Marti Webb

  Country, Years, House

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• I got shocked really bad at a show once. We do this big intro to a cover of the Smiths' "Panic on the Streets of London" and I got a huge shock and went, 'Ohhhh!' We had to stop the show for 15 minutes.

  Pete Yorn

  Panic, Minutes, Bigs

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• People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Growing Up, Long, People

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.

  Gary Paulsen

  War, Book, Reading

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.

  Helen Mirren

  Holiday, East, Towns

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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• It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

  Moby

  Spiritual, Practice, Drunk

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but a drummer at heart. I remember seeing the guitar player do the solo from "Werewolves of London" with his teeth, and that was the moment that had me hooked.

  Charlie Worsham

  Memories, Dad, Heart

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• London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.

  Steve Coogan

  Hate, Laughing, Listening

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• England? England is in London right?

  Eminem

  England

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• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  Fernando Torres

  Moving, Cities, People

  "Fernando Torres: Full transcript of the £50m striker's first interview since joining Chelsea". Chelsea TV Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 1, 2011.

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• I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

  Phil Daniels

  Kings, Dad, Block

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• I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'

  Helen Mirren

  Husband, Home, Faults

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• I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.

  Rebecca Mader

  New York, Hawaii

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

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• I think I enjoy London the best as it's where I started my career. But Paris is beautiful too.

  Alek Wek

  Beautiful, Thinking, Careers

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• Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

  Charlie Brooker

  Army, Fire, Doors

  "Supposing... We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.

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• Where you are is what you eat. When I'm in London I'll have beans on toast for lunch. On holiday - what? Tapas? Go on then I'll have a bit. You eat whatevers in that area.

  Karl Pilkington

  Holiday, Lunch, Tapas

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• The reason there are so many gyms in London is because the amount of gay people who are here now.

  Karl Pilkington

  Gay, People, Reason

  "3 Minute Wonder". Documentary, Short, Comedy, Episode 3, (2006– ).

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• I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.

  Mackenzie Davis

  College, Paris, Expectations

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

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• I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

  Neil Oliver

  Jobs, Paper, Internet

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city - and London more than anywhere - has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can't allow it to become a monoculture.

  Marc Almond

  Cities, Different, Records

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Queens, Adventure

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it centered in New York, London, Los Angeles or Nashville but rather St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Paris.

  Seymour Stein

  New York, Nashville, Paris

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful people who feel incredibly entitled, perhaps justifiably, but I don't want to be around viciously entitled people.

  Moby

  New York, Successful, People

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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