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“In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.”

Mean Children Kids Law Fun Can Do Figures Goes On Protect Normal Our Children Presses British London Britain Centre Tubes Protect You Normal Things

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.”

I Can Felt Behinds Tears London Flying Rome Flew Bursting Bursting Into Tears

Author:Robert Pattinson

“The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.”

Steps Threat London Terrorist Anguish Reminders Vivid Homeland

Author:Mike Pence

“London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.”

World Design London Architecture Urban Procedures Places In The World Civilised Urban Design

Author:Renzo Piano

“I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.”

Years Months London Dubai Months Of The Year

Author:Kevin Pietersen

“When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.”

Knows Feels Firsts Littles Art Felt Class Mets Moved London Profession Technique Sat Guru Feels Right Missouri

Author:Brad Pitt

“Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.”

World Want Looks Night Certain Dark London Peaceful Bridges Odd Someday Silver Curves Balconies Thames

Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

“On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.”

Practice Century Policy New York Grew Grew Up Bases Structure Presses University Financial London Foreign Policy Twentieth Century

Author:Carroll Quigley

“It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.”

Shows Earth London Sunday Afternoon Wet Rainy Sunday Afternoons Rainy Sunday

Author:Thomas de Quincey

“England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.”

Ifs Feels Years Ends Home Cities New York England London Lovely Unfamiliar Going Home

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.”

Knows Bigs Cities Grew Dad Grew Up Towns My Dad London Desperate Ireland Small Town Big Cities Northern Ireland

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.”

Years Country Home Focus Team Special Shapes Moon London Sole Olympics Berlin Selected Something Special Qualifying

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'”

Believe Four Months Sitting Finished London Agents Shooting Bites Wow New Orleans Ripped

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.”

Knows Sometimes Forget Stage London

Author:Alan Rickman

“I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.”

Thinking World New York My Favorite London Really Great Places In The World Great Friend Favorite Places

Author:Emma Roberts

“In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Whole First Time London Indian Verses Indulge Typewriters Satanic Bombay Satanic Verses

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.”

Thinking Way America England London Ireland Dublin

Author:Richard Russo

“The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.”

World Said Ends Facts Known Five Streets Corners East London Dickens Street Corners

Author:Martin Scorsese

“As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.”

Travel London Foreigners

Author:David Sedaris

“I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.”

Way Garden Trade London Festivals Ballerina Covent Garden

Author:Jane Seymour

“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”

Ifs New York Painting Oil London Watercolors Oil Painting

Author:Peter Shaffer

“I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.”

People Knows Believe Care I Believe Easier London Curse Acquaintance Howards End

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”

Ifs Men Heart Broken Comfortable Heartbreak London Income Pleasant Broken Heart Complaints Heart Break Broken Promises Broken Hearted Love And Broken Heart Broken Man

Book:Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

Source: Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

“I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.”

Kind Art Ends Whole Wanted School Used Stuff Materials West London Lists Buddy Knocking West End

Author:Ronald Biggs

“I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.”

Want Next My Own Saws Moved Inspired London Selling Pursue Fund Songwriters Gigs Rice Cds Dublin

Author:Ed Sheeran

“Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most.”

Government Able United Cities Sea Needed Commitment Dues Oil London Kingdoms United Kingdom Westminster City Of London North Sea

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.”

Reason Shows Secret Fiction Watches Tvs London Detectives Detective Fiction

Author:Patti Smith

“I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.”

Grew Grew Up Towns London Miles Household Small Town

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.”

Wife Sea Instinct My Wife London Miles Like Me Countryside Drifting Extended Family Radius

Author:Robert Smith

“Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.”

Knows Heart Facts Lying New York My Heart And Love London Despite Switzerland

Author:Wilbur Smith

“London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.”

Winning Gold London Medal Gold Medals

Author:Hope Solo

“When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.”

People Matter Rocks Abuse No Matter What London Teenager Iceland

Author:Bjork

“Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.”

London Spain

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.”

Ideas Facts Home London Coming Home

Author:Elaine Stritch

“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”

Literature House Voice Mistake London Coffee Kingdoms Folly Echoes Public Opinion Coffee Houses

Book:-5. Tracts, historical and political, during the reign of Queen Anne

Source: -5. Tracts, historical and political, during the reign of Queen Anne

“One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.”

Imagination Church Wonder Century Incredibles My Favorite Humble Woods London Architecture Russia Paris Architect Provinces Favorites Things Onions 18th Century Domes

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.”

People Littles I Can Bits Havens Little Bit Victim Scared London Cruelty Outsiders Legislation

Author:Emma Thompson

“In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.”

Social London Wit Paris Crush Rivals Poise Florence

Author:Virgil Thomson

“To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.”

Thinking Business Economy Revolution London Broke Genocide Manchester Industrial Revolution Textiles Future Shock

Author:Alvin Toffler

“I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.”

Years Three Roles Theater London Three Years

Author:Orlando Bloom

“I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.”

Beautiful Summer Spring England London Autumn

Author:Orlando Bloom

“After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.”

Way Made Real Film Life Is House Left Realizing College London Cinema Opera Royal Thrust Catalyst Opera House

Author:Sam Taylor-Wood

“I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.”

Home London

Author:Johnny Vegas

“They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.”

Looks Realizing Rooms Window Towns London Dreamer Apartment Las Vegas Terrace

Author:Johnny Vegas

“Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.”

Needs Creative Blood Fashion London

Author:Donatella Versace

“You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.”

People Thinking Way Want Feels Dies Fall Effort Steps Car Happenings London Slips Unnecessary Falling Down Stairs Wanting To Die Curb Bathtubs

Author:Christopher Walken

“I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage.”

Thinking Real Ends Stuff Crazy Streets Fashion London Weather Grey Vintage Eclectic Londoners

Author:Emma Watson

“I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.”

Years Light Wanted Lasts Change New York Huge Moved London Intense Faster Pace Last Year Spend Time Brighter Notches Huge Changes

Author:Rachel Weisz

“I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.”

Whole Feelings Ancient London Eras Obsessed Bloody Jack The Ripper

Author:Florence Welch

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