London Quotes - Page 32

• I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

  Douglas Booth

  Diversity, Degrees, Favorite Places

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Hurt, Believe, Cities

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• [London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.

  Douglas Booth

  Growing Up, Weekend, Boys

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I wanted to become an actor. I went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is one of the main drama schools in London where you go when you are older. But I was doing the junior one when I was a kid. And some friends there had agents. I was fourteen and I was like, "I want an agent! It sounds awesome!" I had no idea what that was. I thought those guys looked like men in black. They were hanging around in suits all the time. So I luckily got a very good agent in London and started auditioning. And then when I was 16, I got my first film and I've been working ever since.

  Douglas Booth

  Drama, Kids, School

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I've been lucky enough to work with a make-up artist, Joel Harlow, who you can throw anything at. I said, "Joel, I need to go to the London eye with my children and I want to look like a roadie from Lynyrd Skynyrd."

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Eye, Artist

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I got to take my kids to the London eye with no one looking at me like I was Johnny Depp. They did look at me like I was some kind of sicko walking around with beautiful kids, but I had a perfect disguise.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Kids, Eye

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film in those days, whether it was Technicolor or Technicolor plus the flatness of the light, or whatever.

  William Monahan

  Kids, Light, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties and Seventies British films that I grew up on, because I did very much grow up on British films.

  William Monahan

  Growing Up, Blow, Bypass

  Source: collider.com

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• London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

  William Monahan

  Tudors, Matter, Has Beens

  Source: collider.com

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• I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

  William Monahan

  Drama, Writing, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love at first sight, as one does, and above all a story in which no one is what they appear to be.

  William Monahan

  Sight, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an American, and I said I might have if I was from Scotland, but I'm from Massachusetts, which is sort of Oxfordshire, but more intellectual. That's kind of unforgivable but you've got to let them have it.

  William Monahan

  Scotland, Intellectual, Massachusetts

  Source: collider.com

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• The first time I ever thought about doing a film seriously, I was in London. I was about 17 years old. I was just standing in the street, a bit dazzled by an Antonioni bus wipe, which by the way are inherent in London, and I imagined a film set in London starting out with the riff from The Yardbird's "Heart Full of Soul", and now, how ever many years later, I've done it.

  William Monahan

  Heart, Years, Soul

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't allow everybody in London to know that the undead exist.

  Victoria Smurfit

  Undead, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.

  Will Oldham

  Kentucky, Elements, Records

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• I think American Werewolf in London is the greatest werewolf movie of all time.

  David Hayter

  Thinking, Werewolf, All Time

  Source: www.ign.com

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• And I remember that about three years before that, her first record had come out. And I just remember really liking this one song off it called "In My Bed" and being a little bit enamored. This, you know, this young kind of Jewish girl from North London, you know, I have the same thing - from a Jewish family from North London - with this incredible voice.

  Mark Ronson

  Girl, Song, Years

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout - I mean, picture Allenswood, the swamps of north London. It's a messy sport. So she really enjoyed playing this rough-and-tumble sport in the mud of Allenswood, a team sport. And she was very competitive. And she loved being competitive, and she loved to win. And that, I think, was all of the things that Allenswood enabled.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Sports, Team, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

  Tinie Tempah

  Guy, Able, Standing Out

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• I didn't take it seriously myself at the time, but now all of my old teachers are supportive. Even my principal - I sold out the O2 Arena in London, and he came out to see me, which was really cool. I actually put a picture with him on my Instagram, and I think and he's wearing one of my snapbacks.

  Tinie Tempah

  Teacher, Thinking, Supportive

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• I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.

  Anthea Turner

  Bed, Shepherds, Television

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• My first big career purchase when I was, like, 17 was a Louis Vuitton laptop bag. Now, seeing the exhibit [Louis Vuitton's "Series 3" exhibition in London], it's exciting because I feel like I kind of know it. It's weird - it's almost like something you grow up with and you just know a little bit about it. Now that I'm immersed in it, it's kind of insane.

  Selena Gomez

  Growing Up, Careers, Insane

  "Selena Gomez Details Her Style ‘Revival’". Interview with Lauren McCarthy, wwd.com. October 7, 2015.

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• Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

  Nina Nesbitt

  Moving, People, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.

  Patrick Grant

  Past, Thinking, Eras

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.

  Teju Cole

  Book, Cities, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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