“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.” GuyThreeFemaleLondonFemale Friends Author:John Boyega
“I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.” Love IsCitiesAppreciateLondonFanatics Author:John Boyega
“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.” ReasonGrewGrew UpLondonMy Time Author:Douglas Booth
“I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.” HomeMy FriendsLondonHonestlyEnd TimesSpend Time Author:Douglas Booth
“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.” ReasonDirectorsLondon Author:Douglas Booth
“In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.” IfsInterestingFashionLondonInteresting Times Author:Rei Kawakubo
“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.” PeopleBookBigsCitiesTypeHusbandLondonBeachParisMy HusbandMuseumsBarcelonaMadrid Author:Julie Halston
“I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.” WantStillsDreamGoalTeamExpectationsLondonSetting Goals Author:Shawn Johnson
“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.” YearsFirstsCoursesTaughtMovedLondonPhds Author:Deborah Smith
“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.” YearsBookCountrySpeakFocusHeardMetsFairsLondonEditorsVegetarianInvitedKoreaMaxSampleGearing Up Author:Deborah Smith
“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.” ThinkingYearsCharacterLightEarthUniverseStarsNew YorkCreatingLondonComing BackMixingLight YearsCreating Characters Author:Benjamin Clementine
“There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.” RealBandLondonMythologyFascination Author:Craig Finn
“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.” KnowsWorldYearsLooksSaidEndsShowsMightLastsNextTvsScriptsLondonProducersParksTv ShowsNext YearLast Day Author:Simon Pegg
“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.” LittlesBigsHouseFeltTakenComedyDrawsLondonTruthfulUnapologetic Author:Simon Pegg
“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.” IfsEnoughShowsHomeBitsTelevisionTvsExcitingYeahLondonTake MeTv ShowsAway From HomeHomebodiesTake Me Away Author:Simon Pegg
“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.” CitiesNormalLondonIncomeCoherenceCity Of London Author:Alasdair MacLean
“It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London.” IfsEasierBandLondonGirlfriendGoing Out Author:Simon Taylor-Davis
“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."” PeopleIdeasPlayThreeNextLosesFourWeekTomorrowEuropeInvestmentGuitarLondonFlightCaliforniaExpensiveDriversTerritoryVansBassNext Week Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“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.” ArtNew YorkLondonMuseums Author:Jessa Crispin
“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.” WarFactsSeemsGovernmentGivenWorryToo MuchNewsPressesCriticalDefenseLondonJournalistOperationsMinistryGatheringPentagonWaging WarBriefing Author:Tariq Ali
“Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.” LooksKindStrangeLondonApartmentIdenticalPubs Author:Edgar Wright
“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.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig
“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.” IfsGivingSaidDoneRunningRememberChanceAudienceComedyFourStageFrontsSpeechTownsSticksStartingLondonTheatreOpeningOne WordSyllablesGnomeAgamemnonGive Us A Chance Author:Matt Lucas
“I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful.” SuccessfulStreetsMovedSouthLondonShopsApprenticeshipCatwalkHairdressing Author:Guido Palau
“In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet.” PeoplePastUsedStuffInternetLondonParisInstantaneousMilan Author:Paul Weller
“I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.” PersonsBookClassPoetLondonComing OutPearls Author:Edward Hirsch
“And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts of poems and there were the drafts of my poem, "Wild Gratitude," and I saw that I had begun the poem with the title "August 13th."” BookDifferentClassSawsGratitudeLondonTitlesPearlsAugust Author:Edward Hirsch
“In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me.” FeetLondonTickling Author:Lara Stone
“The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.” FirstsBigsDadSceneComplexesMy DadComplicatedLondonDrivingParksRidingBig ThingsSequenceBicycleCranesRiding A BicycleMuppetPiggyCapers Author:Brian Henson
“Gregory Peck was so charismatic. I saw a woman fall down - fall down! - when she saw him in a restaurant. And Brando. We were in London, and by then he was about 380 pounds. There was a gorgeous waitress, and off he went, in direct competition with me for this young girl's attention, speaking French, making her blush.” YoungFallGirlAttentionSawsDirectCompetitionLondonRestaurantsPoundsGorgeousFalling DownAnd OffWaitressCharismaticBrandoSpeaking French Author:Val Kilmer
“In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.” PeopleRealMoralConvictionLondonReal LifeHeight Author:Michael Caine
“You look at the world situation, look at London, Paris, Italy, it is all basically the same as the U.S. Then you look at other places such as India, Bali, with warmer climates, you know the Southern climates, they are very different. I think there is a time and place for everything and in Australia, for example, it is completely the opposite. I don't think we can be designing for that customer per se.” ThinkingKnowsWorldLooksDifferentSituationExampleDesignOppositesIndiaClimateCustomersLondonParisAustraliaSouthernBali Author:Donna Karan
“How is it having more control if there are businesses from China, India, America choosing Germany and France over London?” IfsAmericaIndiaChinaLondonFranceGermany Author:Sadiq Khan
“I remember I did quite a lot of interviews when the book and the CD came out, and I did a drivetime interview for Radio London or something. You wouldn't immediately associate the music on Ocean Of Sound with drivetime radio, but people found things that they liked, and the DJ was playing some records at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on a weekday.The man who was playing them said to me, "That Peter Brotzmann track, it's like having your head boiled in acid."” PeopleMenSaidBookRememberFoundSoundRecordsHe ManOceanTrackRadioLondonClockInterviewsAfternoonPeterAssociatesAcidCdsDjsWeekdays Author:David Toop
“The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not New York.” New YorkLondonParisExcitement Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“If I had the choice I would live in London. There are a few things I don't like about England but its just details, I don't really think about them but I really like England and I really like London.” IfsThinkingChoicesEnglandDetailsLondon Author:Emmanuel Petit
“Whether Theresa May had stabbed has stabbed the former Mayor of London in the back and Michael Gove had stabbed him in the front. That's about it. It makes House of Cards look like Teletubbies.” LooksMayHouseFrontsLondonCardsFormerMayorsHouse Of CardsTheresa Author:Nigel Evans
“We need to take a whole UK perspective on this [Brexit]. The Mayor of London has got a role in those kinds of discussions.” NeedsKindWholeRolesPerspectiveLondonDiscussionMayors Author:Stephen Crabb
“In London, there is a section in a newspaper, the Metro, where people write in and thank strangers for their lovely or kind actions throughout the week. It brings me such happiness reading it and makes me know that, ultimately, human beings are amazing.” PeopleKnowsWritingHumansKindActionReadingHuman BeingsWeekStrangerLondonLovelyNewspapersSectionsMetro Author:Rosie Fellner
“I was pretty young when I bought my first place, and at that time didn't really view it as an investment. After living there for a few years I decided to move out of London, so I decided to rent it out for a few years. Then, as the property market continued to rise, I made the decision to sell.” YearsFirstsMadeMovingYoungDecisionViewsDecidedSellsPropertyInvestmentLondon Author:Andy Murray
“I know someone who works in a record shop where I live and I'll go in there and he'll play me "Have you heard this single?". Singles by, er the group called The Tights, so an obscure thing... and a group called, I think, er Bauhaus, a London group. That's one single. There's no one I completely like that I can say "Well I've got all this person's records. I think he's great" or "This group's records" it's just, again, odd things.” ThinkingKnowsWellsPersonsI CanPlayRecordsHeardGroupsLondonOddShopsObscureSinglesOdd ThingsTights Author:Ian Curtis
“I know I wasn't allowed to go to fashion school; I can't cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough wherewithal to go to that studio on my first collection and bring Kim, [stylist] Christine Centenera, Ian Connor, Theophilus London, Virgil Abloh...they all came down to [Vetements/Balenciaga designer] Demna Gvasalia's studio that night and hung out.” KnowsFirstsI CanEnoughSchoolNightCuttingFashionDressesStudiosLondonDesignerCollectionsHungHad EnoughKimStylistChristine Author:Kanye West
“I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.” Has BeensI CanBornChanceProductsLondonNew Zealand Author:Tony Judt
“The point is [Donald] Trump goes way too far. He then demonizes Muslims - American Muslims. He wants to ban all Muslims from everywhere in the world, including the new mayor of London who has spoken about this from coming to our country.” WorldWayWantCountryTrumpIncludingLondonOur CountryBansMayors Author:Hillary Clinton
“If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom.” IfsNew YorkClintonLondon Author:Rupert Murdoch
“[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in London. And he didn't overuse synthesizers. He used them just enough. It's such a cool sound.” EnoughUsedSoundBandBuiltRootsLondonSynthesizersLeaning Back Author:Fred Armisen
“I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school.” SchoolBornFiveHigh SchoolLondonTraveledHometownSan Diego Author:Emily Ratajkowski
“I'm a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London - I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain - I've always had a soft spot for this little club.” LittlesBigsSupportTeamClubsLondonSpotsChainsSymbolsSoccerNecksFanaticsTottenhamHotspurTottenham Hotspur Author:Adam Richman
“The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.” FirstsGamesNationsGenerationsFirst TimeLondonRepresentingParticipatingOlympic Games Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.” EuropeAll ThingsSpreadLondonCaliforniaJerseyNew Jersey Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou