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“London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.”

People Seems Enjoy Comedy Fans Towns London

Author:Aziz Ansari

“I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.”

Fighting Balls Catholic South London

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.”

Writing Used Song Heard Stage London Lennon Ringo

Author:Ben Kingsley

“In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces appeared in such publications as Town and Queen could afford to eat in restaurants serving food which would leave them looking and feeling better instead of worse.”

People Feelings Home Funny Faces Names Humorous England Towns Cooking Worthy London Queens Restaurants Fund Serving Feel Better Publication Home Cooking

Book:Always Unreliable: Memoirs

Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs

“At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy.”

People Ifs Happens Funny Fighting Hours Cities Imagine New York Humorous Weakness Ears Excuse London Insane Height New York City Passengers Subway Trophies Excuse Me Rush Hour

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.”

Feels London

Book:A Room With A View: England Literature

Source: A Room With A View: England Literature

“I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.”

Wells Cities Exciting London Fog San Francisco Exhilarating Moody

Author:Julie Christie

“If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.”

Ifs Firsts Term Rights Gay Vote London Partnership Ceremony Gay Rights Advocating

Author:Ken Livingstone

“Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.”

People Knows Self Levels Liberty Please Conscious London Self Conscious Eccentric Suburbs

Author:Stevie Smith

“There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.”

Members Presses London

Author:Alex Ferguson

“In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.”

Littles America Too Much Poet London

Book:Caitlin: a warring absence

Source: Caitlin: a warring absence

“London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who had started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.”

Kind I Can Problem Energy Left Cities Trouble Groups Constant London Campaigns Terrorist Severe Bombing Dump Terrorist Attacks Left And Right Terrorist Groups

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I love living in London.”

London

Author:Trevor McDonald

“New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.”

Cities New York London Fantastic Restaurants New York City

Author:Tibor Fischer

“I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.”

Thinking Kids Mother Talent Politician Actresses London Grandfather My Grandfather Inbreds

Author:Angela Lansbury

“London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.”

London Grounded Gob

Author:Miranda Richardson

“I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.”

Sound London

Author:Graham Swift

“Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.”

Feels I Can Hate Courses Walks I Hate Rounds Corners London

Author:Graham Swift

“I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.”

World Feels Home Cities London Favourite Cities In The World Favourite City

Author:Boris Becker

“In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.”

Two Three House Majors Europe Connections Towns Size London Germany Halls Concerts Unusual Dozen Opera Orchestra Fifth Very Deep Acoustics Opera House House Music

Author:Jeffrey Tate

“An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.”

Mean Body Would Be Boys Dog Office Lows Prepared London Enjoyed Tea Lowest

Author:George Carey

“I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.”

Thinking Trying Young Week Fashion London Designer Wacky Fashion Week

Author:Alexa Chung

“I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.”

Thinking Wanted School Film New York Drama London France Accommodate

Author:Vincent Cassel

“I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.”

People Believe Home Felt London

Author:Naveen Andrews

“My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.”

Way Kind Girl Felt Born Blood My Family Raised London Good Way New Zealand Born And Raised

Author:Natasha Bedingfield

“When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.”

Littles Persons Father Grew Grew Up South London Bugs Nigeria Panama Travel Bug Foreign Service

Author:Nicole Beharie

“When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.”

Ifs Firsts Novel Rounds London Excitement Bookshops

Author:Antony Beevor

“I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.”

Want London

Author:Delta Burke

“In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.”

Facts London

Author:Jim Broadbent

“I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.”

Made Two Enough Shows Acting Nice Week Streets Office Models London Agents Supposed To Be Paris Flats Modeling Two Weeks French Movies

Author:Saffron Burrows

“As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.”

Play Bigs Kids School Felt Sports Community Childhood Dad One Day My Dad London Theatre Crew Rehearsal Camaraderie Mascots

Author:Zach Braff

“I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.”

Want Writing Two Shows Used Written New York London Partners Toms Screenplays One Woman

Author:Eliza Coupe

“My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.”

Country Problem Community Levels Cities Crime Highest Gun Areas Spread London Britain Confined Inner City Gun Crime Hackney

Author:Diane Abbott

“Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.”

Looks London Village Outsiders Westminster

Author:Diane Abbott

“Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.”

Bigs Various London Paris Zero Concerts

Author:Elliott Carter

“You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.”

People Knows Hard Bits Huge Healthy London Manchester

Author:Graham Coxon

“When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.”

Firsts Stuff Happenings Exciting London Manchester Blur Places To Go

Author:Graham Coxon

“Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Mean Sometimes Bits Pride London Manchester

Author:Graham Coxon

“Gentlemen never wear brown in London.”

London Gentleman Brown

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.”

Mean Doe Two Political Answers Exercise Office Police Independent London Executives Mayors Commissioners

Author:P. Chidambaram

“What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?”

Thinking Knows Littles Done Might Turns Courses Trouble Dangerous London Attractive Dickens

Author:Peter Carey

“I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.”

Firsts Matter States Class College Theory Activity Degrees Research London Physics Pursue Queens Mary Constructs First Class Astrophysics Meteorology

Author:Piers Corbyn

“When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.”

Art Bigs Rooms Fans Extraordinary London Architecture Favourite Art Deco

Author:Roman Coppola

“I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.”

Growing Up Growing Down And South London Hated Sunday

Author:Simon Callow

“Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.”

Has Beens Deals Team Office London Billions Disaster Brown Taxpayers Modernisation

Author:Vince Cable

“I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.”

Years Two School Three Summer Moved London Farms Three Years Seattle Three Year Olds Hampshire New Hampshire Early Education Maryland

Author:Alexis Denisof

“The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.”

Elements London Theatre Staring Globes

Author:Arthur Darvill

“As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.”

Ifs Way Writing Art Two Deals Approach Details London Passing Passings Journalist Fascinating Instruction

Author:Frank Delaney

“I mean, I suppose when I'm in London, I'm home so I'm more comfortable.”

Mean Home Comfortable London

Author:Jourdan Dunn

“London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?”

Should White Cities London Catwalk

Author:Jourdan Dunn

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