London Quotes - Page 33

• I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading towards directing for a long time. But I always thought my first outing would be a couple of people and a digital camera in the back streets of London somewhere!

  Andy Serkis

  Couple, Long, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is air conditioned with big machines.

  Rem Koolhaas

  School, Thinking, Air

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).

  Richard Bentall

  Country, Suicide, Heart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Every time I go out in London, I'm not always with my guys. I have three female friends that I'll go out with all the time. I'm the only guy there.

  John Boyega

  Guy, Female, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.

  John Boyega

  Love Is, Cities, Appreciate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

  Douglas Booth

  Reason, Grew Up, My Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.

  Douglas Booth

  Home, Honestly, Spend Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London.

  Douglas Booth

  Directors, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Fashion, Interesting, Ifs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My husband and I like cities. We like to go to other cities. Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, London. We're not big beach people. We're the type that get those books out and go to every museum. We are those people.

  Julie Halston

  Beach, Husband, Book

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

  Deborah Smith

  Years, Taught, Firsts

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the London Book Fair (which I'd never even heard of before), as they were gearing up for Korea being the market focus country in 2014. I met Max Porter there, Kang's editor at Portobello, sent him my sample, and the rest is history.

  Deborah Smith

  Country, Book, Korea

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.

  Benjamin Clementine

  New York, Stars, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.

  Craig Finn

  Real, Fascination, Band

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• Nira Park, who is my longtime producer and friend - I've know her since we did Spaced, the TV show - she gave me this script the last day of filming The World's End. She said, "Take a look at this. It's filming in London next year, and you might like to look at Jack." I trust Nira implicitly.

  Simon Pegg

  Years, Tv Shows, Looks

  Source: 411mania.com

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• The thought of filming in London was a big draw because I could stay in my house. I read it, and I was really taken with it because it felt at once very unapologetic for what it was, which is a romantic comedy. But at the same time, a little spiky and a little truthful.

  Simon Pegg

  Taken, House, Unapologetic

  Source: 411mania.com

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• If I did a TV show, it would have to be in North London because I'm a bit of a homebody, and my work takes me away from home enough. But yeah absolutely. Television has never been more exciting than it is now.

  Simon Pegg

  Home, Tv Shows, Television

  Source: 411mania.com

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• There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Cities, Income, Coherence

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London.

  Simon Taylor-Davis

  Girlfriend, Going Out, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Ideas, California, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

  Jessa Crispin

  Art, New York, Museums

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Government, Worry

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

  Edgar Wright

  Looks, Strange, Kind

  "The Origins of 'World's End' & A Look at 'Ant-Man'". Interview with David Weiner, www.etonline.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.

  Lone Scherfig

  Thinking, Space, Glasses

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old Vic in London and we were at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and I walked on stage and I've got an opening speech that begins: "Agamemnon, how if he had boils?" And I went on and said: "Agamemnon..." And a woman in the front row just went 'tut'. I thought: "I've only done four syllables, give us a chance!" I got one word out and the audience were already tutting. It was worse than any heckle I ever had doing comedy. So, I'll stick to gnomes.

  Matt Lucas

  Running, Giving, Theatre

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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