London Quotes - Page 40

• I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

  Naomi Campbell

  School, Rome, Born

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

  John le Carre

  Opposites, Intelligence Services, Secret

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• Somewhere along the way, New York became all about money. Or rather, it was always about money, but it wasn't all about money, if you know what I mean. New York's not Geneva or Zurich yet, but we're certainly heading in that direction. London is, too.

  Graydon Carter

  New York, Mean, Zurich

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• I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

  John Cleese

  Missing, Difficult, Cab

  "Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

  John Cleese

  Sports, Nuts, West

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• Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

  Nick Clegg

  Home, Sheffield, Wells

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• The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

  Phil Collins

  Details, Rooms, Hospitality

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• Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

  Daniel Craig

  Moved

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• I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

  James Cromwell

  Theatre, Cleveland, Birth

  "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: John and James Cromwell of A .45 at 50th". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2010.

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• I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Grim Reaper, Motorbike, Corners

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'

  DMX

  Love You, Israel, Fans

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• As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.

  Evan Davis

  Country, Couple, Nice

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• Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty.

  Evan Davis

  Running, Character, Tunnels

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• The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

  Evan Davis

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

  Beth Ditto

  Bmw, Class, People

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• I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

  Idris Elba

  Real, Achievement

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• I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Mother, Reading, Thinking

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• I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

  Roger Federer

  New York, Holiday, Paris

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• I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

  Feist

  Charmed, Dickens

  "Feist: 'I was basically raised by the Muppets'". Interview with Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Alive, Like You, Stills

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• I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

  Noel Gallagher

  News, Firsts, Bigs

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• When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

  Boy George

  House, Leisure, Acid

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• I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Country, Home, People

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• I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, Missing, Comforting

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

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• At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

  Hugh Grant

  Home, England, Countryside

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