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“People are friendlier in New York than London.”

People New York London

Author:John Oliver

“I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I'm listening to Tony Head (Giles in Buffy), who sounds kind of like Spike in real life. It's much more tough-guy talk in real life. His accent (as Giles) is just as fake as mine. His is nice and gritty, but it's not North London. I'm always afraid that I'm morphing over into Tony Head, wherever he's from.”

Years Kind Real Play Guy Three Sound Nice Mines Listening Tough Years Ago London Real Life Fake Three Years Accents This Guy Tough Guy Morphing

Author:James Marsters

“I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.”

London Cooks Farmers Organic Food Farmers Markets

Author:Keira Knightley

“My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite.”

Years Firsts Littles Stills Fun Streets Healthy Years Ago London All Time Restaurants Vegetarian Favourite Lexington Mildred

Author:David Walliams

“Frankly, I have no sex appeal. Just strolling in Los Angeles, London, or Paris, you will find a bunch of young guys like me. I am not James Dean.”

Young Guy Sex London Bunch Like Me Appeals Paris Los Angeles Strolling Dean Sex Appeal Young Guys

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henrys old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.”

Book Matter Facts Home Hours Subjects Periods Projects Court Historical London Load Towers Visiting Subject Matter Hamptons

Author:Rick Wakeman

“I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some eras that I wish I'd lived in, like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.”

Has Beens Wish My Own Party London Eras My Own Life Back In Time Go Back In Time

Author:Gemma Arterton

“It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.”

Feels Home Nice London Coming Home Coming Back Continuity

Author:Felicity Jones

“People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that's not going to happen in the same way in London.”

People Thinking Way Happens Night Fronts London Friendly New Yorkers Londoners

Author:Theo James

“To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.”

Differences New York Boring London

Author:Theo James

“And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.”

Challenges Known Roles London Peter

Author:Anthony Quinn

“Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.”

Sometimes Spirit Missing London Gray

Author:Claire Forlani

“I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.”

Made Stills Film Lying Secret Six Theater London

Author:Brenda Blethyn

“Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?”

Matter Independent Moved Patient London Hospitals Offensive Royal Ebola

Author:Katie Hopkins

“The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs!”

Christ Class Reader Fruit Environmental Sake London Nuclear Bombs Buying Bloody Offensive Guardian New Zealand I Smile Nuclear Bomb Suvs Kiwi

Author:Michael O'Leary

“When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.”

Age Law London Golden Chinese Cycles Thieves Bike Bicycle Lanes Cycling Golden Age Racks Cameron Sharia Cyclists Elysium Sharia Law Ubiquity

Author:Boris Johnson

“I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.”

Done Percent London Bicycle Cycling

Author:Guy Ritchie

“[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.”

Way Long Doe Lines Journey Streets Exercise London Strikes Faster Excellent Atmosphere Bus Traffic Bicycle Jam Tubes Cycling Taxi Traffic Jam

Author:Jeremy Paxman

“We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.”

Years Littles Ideas Moving Bits Boys Years Ago Decided Moved London Working It Weekend Little Boys Closeness

Author:Linda McCartney

“London now has its own John Grisham.”

Author:Mark Billingham

“As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.”

Ifs Deeper London Poetry Is Poetic Console

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental Health (NAMH), formed in 1944, and initially run by the mentally unstable Montagu Norman, previously of the Bank of England. The group originally met at Norman's London home, where he and Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht had met in the 1930s to arrange financing for Hitler.”

Source: Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

“It was these same families [Rothschild, Rockefeller, Harriman, Bush, etc] who funded the eugenics movement which is pledged to remove the lower genetic blood streams and leave only those of superior stock. Eugenics today often goes under the title of 'population control'. The best known of the population control organizations is Planned Parenthood which began life under another name at the London offices of the British Eugenics Society.”

Today Names Known Blood Movement Office Organization Population British London Superiors Titles Streams Etc Remove Parenthood Eugenics Planned Parenthood Population Control Rothschild

Author:David Icke

“The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.”

Whole Body Age Earth Dark Cities Habit Clouds Breathe London Medical Range Thick Consumption Coal Lungs Mist Dark Ages

Author:John Evelyn

“Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.”

Men Age Young Guy Found Dark Levels Blood Raises London Medical Young Man Hospitals Professors Sugar Dark Ages Mcdonalds Cholesterol

Author:John Yudkin

“You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.”

House Felt Cities London Flames Burned City Of London

Book:In Honor of a Man and an Ideal...: Three Talks on Freedom

Source: In Honor of a Man and an Ideal...: Three Talks on Freedom

“Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.”

Writing Film Week Right Now Thirds Finished London Features Score September Fog Orchestra

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did.”

Want Real Records Radio Studios London Impulse Session Ghouls

Author:John Gallagher, Jr.

“The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.”

Firsts Sound Principles Issues Resources Accounts Climate London Printed Glowing Register Provinces

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.”

Thinking Made Ends Actors Stars Fashion Decided East London Movie Star Gangsters Gangster Movie

Author:Eddie Marsan

“Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.”

Morning London Terrorist Bombing Thursday Jitters

Author:Cliff Stearns

“I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.”

Ability Duty Office London Judgement Mayors Kenneth

Author:Ken Livingstone

“I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.”

Thinking Has Beens Enough Given Credit London Movie

Author:Mel Smith

“When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.”

Men Long Sadness Huge Despair Leaving Ugly London Paris Massive

Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?" Grandfather snorted. "Someone send to London for a special license! Now.”

Love Needs Hands Eye Age Christian House Doors Special Return Smell London Smoke His Eyes Grandfather Lit License Baths Dukes Carriages Beth

Author:Karen Hawkins

“My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.”

Love Firsts Age Used Given Chance Industry Directors Decided London Agents Interviews Tape Casting Sweden Casting Directors

Author:Alicia Vikander

“Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.”

Murder Shame London Feds Lasting Towers Midnight Foul Julius

Book:The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford

Source: The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford

“I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.”

Littles Cities Class Middle Grew Grew Up London Lifestyle Middle Class City Life

Author:Ed Westwick

“I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.”

“The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.”

Kind Done Play Moments Wanted Moving Effort Too Much Seeing Ought Benefits Flow Difficulty Scripts London Crafts Nightmare

Author:Arthur Miller

“There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.”

Stills Soul Body House Air Feet Conditions Window Wine Leaving London Atmosphere Port Unchanging Limbo

Book:The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels

Source: The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels

“As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.”

People Years Stories Young Used Actors Community Company Youth Theater Prison Seven Clubs London Technique Access Hospitals Estates Units Housing Seven Years Improvisation Offenders

Author:Jenny Downham

“FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London”

Purpose Certain London Ships Flags Troops Rags Vacant Forts

Book:The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce

Source: The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce

“London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.”

Earth Race London Multicultural Mixed Race

Author:JJ Feild

“I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and they're better paid.”

Thinking Years Done Comedy Havens Years Ago Paid London

Author:Todd Barry

“Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military Alliance Meeting.' Of course, these people are no longer Iraqi, they have no military, and there is no alliance. But they did have a meeting.”

People Way Courses Military Mets Meetings London Score Saddam Gathering Exile Hussein Alliances

Author:Jon Stewart

“Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.”

Sea Refuse London Gallows

Book:London: The Biography

Source: London: The Biography

“Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.”

People Heart Prayer Concerned London Aids Investigation Providing Egypt Expertise

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.”

Feels Doe Country Seems Wife Fate Brother Mets Silent London Ghost Permanent Immigrants Exile Persistent Boston Melbourne

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.”

Play Shows Students London

Author:David Naughton