“I was born in London. I moved to New Zealand when I was really young; I can't remember London. My parents went and did what was supposed to be a one-year O.E. (overseas experience) that turned into a 9 year O.E. and they had two kids.” YearsI CanTwoKidsRememberYoungParentBornMovedLondonSupposed To BeNew Zealand Author:Thomston
“I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.” PeopleSaidShowsParticularMonthsRelationRadioLondonAccusedGalleryDisturbedWigsBatteredInterviewersPictures Of MyselfNans Author:Nan Goldin
“In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.” PeopleComfortableLondonRestaurantsLos AngelesIdenticalMcdonaldsTokyo Author:Frank Gehry
“If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.” IfsBeautifulFishesLondonThames Author:Freeman Dyson
“We had spent a lot of time in London [with Lucas Goodman], which has been amazing, but also it was kind of a homecoming and we felt so surrounded by a specific community of people who are just so New York, so unapologetically themselves and so creative.” PeopleKindHas BeensFeltCommunityCreativeNew YorkLondonHomecomingGoodman Author:Jillian Hervey
“There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.” PeoplePlayWould BeLondon Author:Martin Schulz
“I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.” FeelsHomeLondonListsBali Author:Donna Karan
“I actually had nuggets and mostly Asian food when I was at the Olympics. But as soon as I got back to Jamaica, or when I was in London, I had a lot of wings. That was the first thing I asked for - "Hey, get me some wings."” FirstsWingsLondonHeyOlympicsAsianJamaicaNuggets Author:Usain Bolt
“A universal sound is about having everybody be able to relate to it whether you're in New York, LA, London or Australia. You have to be able to universally be brought back to a place where they can relate to you as an artist.” AbleArtistSoundNew YorkUniversalLondonRelateAustralia Author:Mario
“The incident itself happened in London, but because we were all based at the time in Los Angeles we moved it there. Certain details are almost exactly like the true experience, but we decided to make the film more of a thriller, in the hope that it would reach a bigger audience. That's why it's called "Selling Isobel" and not "Selling Frida." We didn't want to make a dark, depressing "movie-of-the-week."” WantFilmCertainDarkAudienceHappenedWeekDecidedBiggerMovedDetailsLondonSellingLos AngelesDepressingIncidentsThrillersFridaDark Depressing Author:Rudolf Buitendach
“People think its hard to travel to the airports. 9/11 has made our travel difficult, with the security laws and that. As far as comparing what we do to driving 3,000 miles a week, making fifty bucks a night, sometimes one hundred bucks a night, its a lot different. Guaranteed contracts, first class air fare, Hilton hotels in London, Champaign. Waddaya want? What more could you ask for!” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsMadeDifferentSometimesHardLawNightAsksDifficultClassAirWeekSecurityHundredLondonDrivingMilesCompareFiftyHotelContractsAirportsBucksFirst Class Author:Ric Flair
“I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance.” IfsThinkingMadeFilmChanceLondonContemporaryZombieRiot Author:Michael Caton-Jones
“In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50, 60 100 years, this is what we've done. My worry is that that will change but actually, that will never change because musicians will just go somewhere else.” KnowsYearsMeanDonePastCultureWorryMusicianLondonSomewhere ElseNever Change Author:Kate Tempest
“I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.” IfsMeanUsedPartyParticularLondonClique Author:Eddy de Clercq
“I remember a discussion with a panel of experts, I asked a question to one of the moderators: "Why is it so difficult for a foreign DJ to play in a club in London?" And you know what the guy said? "Get better than the English."” KnowsSaidPlayRememberGuyDifficultClubsLondonDiscussionGet BetterExpertsDjs Author:Eddy de Clercq
“On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll get there [in London] in the end, but it has to start with who comes to see you in the musical and whether they can see beyond the dancing and the singing.” PeopleThinkingDifferentEndsStatesUnitedUnited StatesTelevisionSingingDancingMusicalLondonBroadwayDifferent PeoplesCrossover Author:Luke Evans
“As soon as that was kind of green-lit, it became very obvious to me what I wanted to do and it was an instinctive reaction to my relationship with how I wear my Ugg boots. Which is in London and in New York, I wear them as soon as I get in basically.” KindWantedNew YorkGreenObviousLondonReactionsBootsLitUggsUgg Boots Author:Alexa Chung
“I can tell you why I like different countries. Ireland - some of the funniest heckles I've ever gotten. And the last time I did England I did Bristol, Manchester, and then London. The whole country is just amazing to drive through.” I CanDifferentCountryWholeLastsEnglandLondonIrelandLast TimeManchesterDifferent CountriesBristol Author:Bill Burr
“London was like that too. It was that time of year when all the rich kids with the oil money have their cars shipped over. Some of the most beautiful cars I've ever seen - with the worst paint jobs! It was just this hilarious, disgusting display of wealth. The shamelessness of it. To be that shameless about your money when you're a guest in a country was astounding to me. But I saw the humor in it.” YearsCountryKidsJobsBeautifulWealthRichSawsWorstCarPaintOilLondonGuestsDisplayDisgustingShamelessRich Kids Author:Bill Burr
“I recently interviewed Bernie Ecclestone in London. He had a go at women, said [Vladimir] Putin should be running Europe and so on. He enjoys it - he's been doing it for such a long time. He has an entrenched position. The truth be known, he is unique, right?” ShouldLongSaidRunningEnjoyKnownPositionTruth IsLong TimeUniqueEuropeLondonPutin Author:Martin Sorrell
“I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.” PeopleFeelsKidsHouseTerribleLondonForty Author:M.I.A.
“When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.” PeopleThinkingSometimesWalkingNormalTownsBritishLondonNormUnkind Author:Ewan McGregor
“When I moved to London, you could park your motorcycle in the pavement, on the sidewalk. We would stay here and just leave it and go about your business. But now something was sort of encroaching in London. There's cameras everywhere. You can't do anything. You're not allowed to be in a group.” GroupsCamerasMovedLondonParksMotorcycleSidewalkPavement Author:Ewan McGregor
“London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.” IfsRealCitiesOfficeLondonExpensiveApartmentEstates Author:David Bailey
“If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.” IfsDifferentLondonSomewhere Else Author:Zaha Hadid
“One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.” ThinkingWayWellsSaidStillsGirlStudySpecialMetsOne DayMarriedIndiaTwentiesAskingLondonIndianTwenty OneSari Author:Indira Gandhi
“Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.” KnowsStudentsClothesWesternLondonIndian Author:Indira Gandhi
“Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time.” RealCareersSouthLondonGood TimesMexicoSouth Africa Author:Robert Englund
“I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the Dharma. I was halfway through the book when I turned to my mother and said, "I'm a Buddhist," to which she replied, "Oh are you dear? Well finish the book and then you can tell me about it." I realised I'd always been Buddhist but I just hadn't known it existed, because in those days not even the word 'Buddha' was ever spoken. This was in in the 1960s, so there wasn't that much available, even in London.” WellsSaidBookMotherBornKnownEnglandDearAvailableLondonBuddhist1960sHalfwayRealisedDharma Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I never really wondered about getting from London to Lahaul. It all seemed such a natural progression. In London I felt I was in the wrong place and wanted to leave. I'd thought about going to Australia or New Zealand. It's nothing against England, but I knew I wasn't meant to be there.” WantedFeltNaturalEnglandLondonAustraliaMeant To BeProgressionNew Zealand Author:Tenzin Palmo
“In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined the Buddhist Society. For the most part, people there were either interested in Theravada or Zen Buddhism. There was almost no one into Tibetan Buddhism at that time.” PeopleLittlesInformationBuddhismLondonBuddhistTibetanZen BuddhismTibetan Buddhism Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.” ThinkingWayWantHomeWaitingChanceWeekLike YouMetsProjectsTestsWoodsLondonScreensBeing TrueMy WayNervesTapeFlewBack HomeJust SayingElijahBritsToo Good To Be TrueReally Like You Author:Samuel Barnett
“I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people.” PeopleFeelingsBritishLondonGreat Feelings Author:Robert Vaughn
“If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism and socialism didn't work, but it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here because they think the only thing that hasn't happened is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingCareHappenedHavensUnionsLondonSocialismCommunismHealth CareSovietSoviet UnionFundingCommunism And Socialism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a surgeon onset [of Doctor Strange] every day. So and he taught me to do sutures and was practicing on turkey breasts, raw turkey breasts.” BrainTaughtStrangeShadowFemaleDoctorsLondonBreastsTurkeysSurgeonsTorontoBrain Surgeons Author:Rachel McAdams
“I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.” YearsLastsSevenLondonWho I AmBusShoppingSeven Years Author:FKA twigs
“I have to say, opening up in New York taught me a lot about that level of attention to detail. London's a tough market, Paris is a tough market, but New York, well, that's extraordinary.” WellsLevelsAttentionNew YorkTaughtToughExtraordinaryDetailsLondonOpeningParisOpening UpAttention To Detail Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.” LooksSaidTwoStarsFourNew YorkSafeHollywoodWestCriticsLondonSubstanceFascinatingReviewsJudgedPlatesThey SaidObserversPersonaNew York TimesGreat OnesDevastationFireworksWest Hollywood Author:Gordon Ramsay
“We launched it in the London branch - phenomenal sausages, incredible eggs, homemade baked beans, black pudding - and it's something I wanted to bring to Dubai.” WantedBlackIncrediblesLondonBranchesEggsBeansPhenomenalSausagePuddingHomemadeDubaiBaked Beans Author:Gordon Ramsay
“I think when we opened in 2001, it was holy ground. There was nothing here. Back then, being on the Dubai Creek was an amazing position, and I would come one or two times a year, max. Now it's so different. The travel dilemma has disappeared and it is so easy to get to Dubai. What is it, seven hours from London? It's pretty easy.” ThinkingYearsTwoDifferentEasyHoursPositionHolySevenLondonDilemmaMaxEasy To GetCreeksDubaiHoly Ground Author:Gordon Ramsay
“There [in Allied] was depicting London in the war, as well, and doing that in a way where you see something that you don't normally see, which is how hedonistic it was. In reality, that's what was going on. But, all of it worked.” WayWellsWarRealityLondonHedonistic Author:Steven Knight
“I visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was in West London, in an old Gillette factory. You'd go into the factory through the security, and then there were a lot of camels and goats. Most sets are really dull, but this was fantastic.” SecurityWestLondonFantasticDullFactoriesGoatsCamels Author:Steven Knight
“It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like, "This is how a film should be made." It was beautiful.” ShouldMadeLastsBeautifulFilmFeltHollywoodWestLondonMade It Author:Steven Knight
“Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.” GuyStreetsLondonLampsGigs1930s Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof - a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.” MenHe ManMetsDatingTragedyLondonCinemaBombsGrandmotherGrandfatherRoofWoundedMy GrandfatherBlitz Author:Chris Cleave
“[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research.” ChildrenWarLostNovelTeacherTaughtResearchLondonFeaturesGrandmotherElsewhereLost Child Author:Chris Cleave
“I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was like London at the height of the Victorian era, in which everyone was far more obsessed with table manners and status-climbing than they are in London. In London, everyone was just crawling over this blizzard of cocaine. Here, if you have more than a glass of wine with your meal, people refer you to Alcoholics Anonymous.” PeopleIfsIdeasNew YorkTablesWineWestGlassesLondonMannersErasHeightObsessedMealsClimbingVulgarAlcoholicsCocaineVictorianCrawlingAlcoholics AnonymousWine GlassBlizzardVictorian EraWild WestBrashLondonersTable Manners Author:Toby Young