“I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living in Paris or London. It was a bit apart from the main city, and [it gave me] this feeling of isolation and also being close to nature, with nature as a surrounding and also a frontier, from the society of the world.” WorldLittlesFeelingsUsedBitsCitiesSeaLondonParisIsolationFrontiers Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic
“Living in London, the water is really harsh, and my hair got so bad as soon as I moved there. But you can't really avoid that.” WaterHairMovedLondonHarsh Author:Margot Robbie
“it's a weird thing with acting and it happens to a lot of actors, not just myself - it's like you're giving off an I really need to be loved today vibe. My worst moment recently is I fell asleep on the tube in London on the Victoria line 8:30 in the morning and I woke up and there were about five people with iPhones taking pictures.” PeopleNeedsGivingMomentsHappensTodayActorsLinesActingMorningFiveWorstLike YouLondonTubesIphoneWeird ThingsVictoriaTaking PicturesWorst Moments Author:Andy Serkis
“She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I was filming Patti [Smith].” FactsBandMembersLet MeLondonShockedBand Members Author:Steven Sebring
“[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut.” EnoughWantedLostWonderfulBabyProgramPainfulLondonPregnantHoneymoonOdysseyFertilization Author:Gene Wilder
“The United States are a miracle: the division between two states is sometimes a river or a mountain, and sometimes it's a straight line. But nobody says, "That tree really belongs in South Carolina. I shan't do anything about it now, I'll get it back later." I shall go after I am here to London and after that to Potsdam, where Comrade Stalin, Mr Churchill and Harry Truman divided up Europe; and what we see now is the result of that. The Americans would have accepted it. But Europeans don't accept anything.” TwoSometimesStatesLinesUnitedResultsAcceptingUnited StatesTreeMountainEuropeRiversMiracleSouthLondonAcceptedDivisionDividedComradeCarolinaStraight LinesSouth CarolinaTrumanHarry TrumanPotsdam Author:Quentin Crisp
“I was born in North London, migrated to Australia when I was four. So when I first came to Australia people saw me as a little English boy. Over the years that feeling of being a little English boy diminished and I felt much more Australian.” PeopleYearsFirstsLittlesFeelingsFeltBornBoysSawsFourLondonAustraliaAustralian Author:Michael Marmot
“There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.” TwoDifferentLondonBritain Author:Nigel Farage
“I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.” YearsTwoWarSchoolStarsCollegeDramaSpeechEnglandLondonTwo Years Author:Carrie Fisher
“Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.” WellsCenturyEuropeJewLondonCollections19th CenturyGypsyDiaspora Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.” YearsMindIdeasWantedSecretHappenedReturnConversationProjectsEnglandOriginalsLondonTomsInvitedChordsAdventurerHardyOriginal Ideas Author:Steven Knight
“I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!” KnowsEndsLondonOld Saying Author:Clive Rowe
“The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of course there's also the West End with its brilliant theatres and thriving tourism but to also have areas like Hackney which are so community based but not exclusive, that remind you that those surrounding you are the most important, is what makes London what it is.” LittlesImportantEndsCultureCoursesCommunityAreasWestLondonTheatreBrilliantGreat ThingsPocketsExclusiveTourismWest EndHackney Author:Clive Rowe
“I am always with London On Da Track, Wheezy, 808 Mafia Mike Will Made It, Ricky Racks.” MadeTrackLondonMade ItMikeMafiaRacks Author:Young Thug
“The Brexiteers promised their supporters wonderful things, almost none of which can ever come true. The billions that London transfers to Brussels will most certainly not land in the budget of the country's National Health Service. Brexit is going to be very bitter for many of its supporters.” CountryWonderfulLandLondonBillionsBitterBudgetsSupporterWonderful ThingsTransfersBrusselsHealth Services Author:Nicholas Bloom
“I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.” YearsWarSchoolMemoriesStrangeTrainEightLondonPlentyKent Author:John Hurt
“It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that the vast majority of Londoners can't afford to buy, are being forced out of the boroughs they grew up in, or in the worst cases, are being made homeless. If nothing is done, people will continue to be driven out of the city and London will cease to be a hub for creativity and entrepreneurship.” PeopleIfsMadeDoneReadingHouseCitiesCreativityCasesImpossibleWorstGrewGrew UpMajorityRateLondonDrivenNewspapersCeaseEntrepreneurshipRisingHomelessHousingHubLondonersHousing MarketHouse Prices Author:David Lammy
“Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the market. Through the FOURWALLS Film Project, we want to get an accurate picture of the London housing situation through the eyes of the people that live there, and promote discussion around it.” PeopleWantEndsEyeFilmSituationFocusPerspectivePoliticianProjectsPropertyExtremesLondonJournalistDiscussionExpertsAccurateHousingThrough The Eyes Author:David Lammy
“We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For example, I've spoken about the need to rethink the greenbelt - the protected land around the edge of London that was originally intended to be protected and retained as an area of natural beauty but in many cases is neither natural nor beautiful.” NeedsDifferentHomeBeautifulNaturalSpaceNumbersCitiesCasesLandPolicyExampleAreasResponseEdgesLondonProtectedAffordable Author:David Lammy
“We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.” NeedsEnoughHouseNamesDecisionCasesLandCarDeserveLondonPlanningParksProtectedWastelandQuarryCar Parks Author:David Lammy
“I hope we get a real diversity in perspectives from the good, the bad and the ugly. I love living in London so I hope there are submissions that celebrate the City while also showing that there are many challenges we need to face together.” NeedsRealTogetherFacesChallengesCitiesPerspectiveDiversityUglyLondonCelebrateSubmissionGood The Bad And The Ugly Author:David Lammy
“I've always been a city person - London boy - and New York is just incredible. It has what London has but almost more in terms of variety, culture, social life, everything. I just like walking the streets and feeling the energy and the vibe.” PersonsFeelingsCultureEnergySocialTermCitiesBoysStreetsNew YorkWalkingIncrediblesLondonVarietySocial Life Author:Frank Lampard
“I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French.” WorldFeelsHouseRecordsLondonShopsChicagoBerlinTokyoElectronic MusicHouse MusicMinneapolis Author:Thomas Bangalter
“If you've been to the city of Malmo in Sweden, or to Berlin or to Hamburg or to London or to Paris in the suburbs, or Rotterdam in my own country. You see many cities where there is a city within a city - where even today in the United Kingdom - I don't know if you're aware of that - there are even sharia courts active, whether it's rulings that the worth of a woman is half of that of a man.” IfsKnowsMenCountryTodayMy OwnUnitedCitiesHalfCourtActiveLondonKingdomsParisRulingBerlinSuburbsSwedenUnited KingdomShariaRotterdam Author:Geert Wilders
“I went to London Fashion Week for the first time, after I got the job [on The Collection ], and it completely changed the way I perceived it. I thought, "This is a far bigger operation than I ever expected, and it has far more worth than I ever gave it before." It definitely changed my view of the fashion world.” WorldWayFirstsJobsViewsWeekFashionChangedFirst TimeBiggerLondonExpectedOperationsCollectionsFashion WorldFashion Week Author:Tom Riley
“We had a completely deniable exchange of papers - in the winter before the 1997 election - with [Tony] Blair, setting out what we thought were the realistic parameters for a solution: and we were getting reasonable responses back from him. That's what led to Blair's visit to Belfast on May 16, 1997 - two weeks after he became Prime Minister and his first official visit outside London.” FirstsMayTwoWeekPaperSolutionsElectionResponseWinterLondonSettingSettingsMinistersOfficialsReasonablePrimeRealisticPrime MinisterPapersTwo WeeksBlairParametersBelfast Author:David Trimble
“I was a carpenter in Northern Vermont and got this tax refund check that just about covered a one-way airfare to London. So this I saw as a sign from God. So I went over to see Ray [Hussett] for a couple of weeks and ended up staying 10 years. I got work as a stage carpenter at the Oval House in Kennington, South London.” WayYearsHouseSawsWeekStageCoupleTaxesSouthLondonChecksOne WayStayingCoveredRaysCarpenterVermontOvalRefundsSigns From God Author:John Ratzenberger
“I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing to do a film. I always choose the best locations. New Orleans. That's fun. I'm available. Let's go.” IfsLooksFilmFunNiceAvailableLondonLocationNew OrleansCalendars Author:John Ratzenberger
“The best city for fashion is Tokyo. You see styles there you won't see in London, Paris, Milan or New York. I also like the fashion scene in Los Angeles - it has a unique look.” LooksCitiesFashionStyleNew YorkSceneUniqueLondonParisLos AngelesTokyoMilan Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“When I am in London, I think my favourite city is London, but when I am in New York, I feel it is New York. It is very hard to choose between the two.” ThinkingFeelsTwoHardCitiesNew YorkLondonFavouriteFavourite City Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics and bring me to the Royal Academy in London with very few financial resources and no connections. She didn't know anybody in England, but she found a way. Her love for her daughters and seeing what they could be, motivated her and gave her the chutzpah, the courage, to break down barriers. When you have the motivation of love, you will find the way.” KnowsWayLittlesMotherMotivationFoundBreakStudySeeingLove YouDaughterResourcesEconomicsConnectionsEnglandFinancialLondonBarriersMotivatedApartmentBedroomRoyalBreaking DownGreeceAcademyAthensCambridgeLove For HerFinancial Resources Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background, is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.” PeopleFeelsUseJoyCausesClassGrowing UpGrowingDown AndLondonBackgroundsWorking Class Author:Daniel Kaluuya
“What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.” SidesNumbersSeaMinutesCarCommunicationDrugMajorsTrainLondonShopsGoodsVillainCashRoutesFenceStolenAirportsTunnelsPortAntiquesBrightonExporting Author:Peter James
“If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys looking in a shop window, we think, "Oh, they're wondering what they're going to buy." A cop looks at them and thinks, "Why are they standing there? Are they doing a drug deal? Are they going to mug someone? Are they going to rob the shop?"” IfsThinkingLooksTwoGuyWalksDealsWonderStreetsDrugStandingWindowTownsLondonShopsShoppingCopStanding ThereCapesMugTwo GuysCape TownShop Windows Author:Peter James
“I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor [to East]. He has a home in Silicon Valley, and he said it's just a few minutes' drive away from mine.” FirstsSaidHomeBornNaturalMinutesMinesMetsQuietFirst TimeEastLondonOrthodoxValleysEngineersSiliconSuccessorsSilicon Valley Author:Masayoshi Son
“In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like my privacy. I like being with my family and I like being in their company. I work very hard and I don't have much time so I just want to be with my family or in the English countryside. I don't take holidays.” WantHardCompanyMy FamilyLondonHolidayPrivacyAwardsGatheringCeremonyCountrysideAward CeremoniesEnglish Countryside Author:Marco Pierre White
“My memories are beautiful because my wife Joan is English and shortly after we were married, we stayed in London and I never forgot it. We loved it so much that we've been back very often and it's always a thrill. To me, there's New York City where I was born and raised and then there's London!” BeautifulBornMemoriesCitiesWifeNew YorkMarriedRaisedMy WifeLondonNew York CityThrillBorn And Raised Author:Stan Lee
“There are only two people running [Donald trump and Hillary Clinton] - you have to pick one of two people, and it's not like I said Mickey Mouse was going to win. This is why, like you said about Brexit, inside of London I don't think they saw what was going on.” PeopleThinkingSaidTwoRunningWinningSawsLike YouTrumpPicksClintonLondonMiceMickey Author:Ken Moelis
“We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to the crazy blonde hair. Then Mayor of London, now Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson was widely seen as a cartoonish oaf and that made him strangely undentable as a politician. No one could land a blow on him because he was already ridiculous.” WayKindMadeCharacterCrazyLandHairTrumpPoliticianBlowLondonRidiculousSecretaryJohnsonBlondeMayorsBlonde Hair Author:Charlie Brooker
“When I'd read the script [The Man], [ Eugene Levy] that's who I'd seen in my mind. When I ran into him, I said to him, 'I read the script. You'd be great.' He had no idea what I was talking about. Then, we saw each other again in London. He'd read it and was enthused about it.” MenMindSaidIdeasTalkingSawsHe ManScriptsLondonNo IdeaRan Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower, even in London... the protesters were 90 percent women. The image of the woman and the problem of the woman still exists. Not exactly in the same terms as 200 hundred years ago, but we still have the problem here.” YearsStillsProblemAmericaTermFrontsTrumpPercentHundredYears AgoLondonTowersCoincidencePresidency Author:Claude-Michel Schonberg
“When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered "condemnation is not the solution." We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.” WantStatesMilitaryYouthSolutionsLondonOffensiveReconciliationCondemnationCondemning Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a complex mix of multiculturalism and financial power. Interestingly, that is a political mix of progressive and oppressive. What I'm arguing is simply that we should take responsibility for the effects of 'our place' around the world. To take responsibility for our embeddedness. If you don't want to, so be it. It does demand an imaginative engagement with our planetary interdependence and that can be quite challenging.” IfsWorldWantShouldDoeMomentsFactsPoliticalAsksChallengesResponsibilityEffectsDemandResponseComplexesFinancialLondonArguingAround The WorldProgressiveEngagementMulticulturalismTaking ResponsibilityImaginativeInterdependence Author:Doreen Massey
“Though people could, in principle, cross national borders to reach places where their work is more highly rewarded, they are in fact prevented from doing so. As a result, huge differences also persist in the price of labor, as you can see when you get a haircut in rural India or hire a driver or babysitter in Bolivia. You can easily buy such services at one-fiftieth the price you would pay in London, Hamburg or Manhattan.” PeopleFactsDifferencesResultsPayPrinciplesHugeLaborCrossesIndiaLondonBordersDriversPersistManhattanHaircutsBabysitterBoliviaNational Borders Author:Thomas Pogge
“I see no real argument in Britain that is concerned that an Indian company owns our most successful car manufacturer or that the sewer system under London is being renewed in part by Chinese investment. There are the odd voices that express concern but they are very marginal and they are not being listened to by the British people.” PeopleRealVoiceCompanySuccessfulCarConcernConcernedArgumentInvestmentBritishLondonChineseIndianOddBritainSewers Author:George Osborne
“Earlier that year [1996], Ronnie Scott came to Visiones when I was playing with Maria and he hired me to come and play in his club in London, which I was gratified by. That allowed me to make some more connections.” YearsPlayConnectionsClubsLondon Author:Jon Gordon
“In fact, when Bernard [Leach] would be called away to go up to London for something and we'd be living alone for a couple of days, we would dig into the storage areas in the house and we'd get out all the pots that we might not see in the course of our daily life, because we weren't using them in the house on a steady basis. But we found some fantastic pots in there tucked away, and we could look at them and examine them and handle them.” LooksFactsMightWould BeCoursesFoundHouseCoupleAreasBasesLondonHandleFantasticDaily LifePotSteadyStorageLiving Alone Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Bernard [Leach] had acquired many [Shoji] Hamada works. Some of them, it was interesting - first of all, Hamada worked in St. Ives for about four years before returning to Japan to start his own pottery. He had exhibitions in London, and if these exhibitions didn't sell out, the galleries were instructed to send the remaining work down to the Leach Pottery, where they would go into the showroom for sale. If Bernard saw one that hadn't sold that he really admired, then he would take it (he would buy it), and it would go into the house.” IfsYearsFirstsHouseInterestingSawsFourSellsLondonJapanFour YearsGalleryExhibitionsPotteryShowroom Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Friends of Bernard's [Leach] came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram. All these people were, let's say, made available to us by a friendship with Leach. In addition there was a potter's group - what was it called? I think it was called the Cornish Potters Society, but I'm not sure of that. Anyway, they had meetings and we would go with Leach to these meetings and meet other potters, and they would have programs where they would discuss pottery and people would interchange ideas.” PeopleThinkingMadeIdeasGivenGroupsProgramMeetingsAvailableLondonNot SureIntroductionPottersPotteryInterchange Author:Warren MacKenzie