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“When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.”

Years School Gone Drama Forgotten London Auditions

Author:Julia Ormond

“I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.”

School Drama Paid Dues London Theatre

Author:Richard O'Brien

“I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.”

Knows Shows Walks Dinner London

Author:Elizabeth Peyton

“I want to win a gold medal in London.”

Want Winning Goal Gold London Medal Gold Medals

Author:Kerri Walsh

“Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.”

Wells Home Company Happenings London Halls Peter Royal Ensemble

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.”

World Want Firsts Ends Shows Guy Found Groups Musician West London Theatre Broke Want Me Palaces Dolls Broke Up West End

Author:Clarke Peters

“Coming to New York is like a big hug, everyone is so welcoming. There's something about here, everyone makes you feel so at home. I miss my family of course, but I don't miss London that much. I was worried, but I feel really at home. Everyone says that who comes here from London, but I didn't believe them.”

Feels Believe Home Bigs Courses Missing New York My Family London Welcome Worried Hug

Author:Archie Panjabi

“I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.”

Ifs Firsts New York Bills London Paris Gates Museums

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.”

Ifs Faces Young Night Choices Five Four Week One Day Commitment My Family London Young Women Ifs And Mps

Author:Lucy Powell

“After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.”

School Film Study Television Degrees London Posts Graduates Film And Television Embarking Sheffield

Author:Nick Park

“To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.”

Years Has Beens Real Hard Together Games Individual Sacrifice Team Hard Work Honor Determination South London South Africa Selected Olympic Games Relays

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.”

Believe Three Games I Believe Incredibles Excited London Titles Olympics Competing Looking Forward

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.”

People Thinking Might Perception Shoes Legs London

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.”

Believe I Believe Cities Europe Exciting London

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.”

Romance London Paris Visiting Captivated

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.”

Achieve London

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading.”

Has Beens Whole Home Fun Challenges Connections London Ireland New Life November Upside Down Back Home Fading

Author:Evanna Lynch

“I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.”

People Thinking World Made Cities New York Grew Grew Up Winter London Insane Shooting Los Angeles Chicago Philadelphia Pittsburgh Norway

Author:John Landis

“London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.”

Knows Home Nice London Familiar

Author:Jude Law

“The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.”

People Way Doe Different Real Facts Problem Courses Causes Growing Up Growing London Different Life

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.”

People Earth Moving British London Down To Earth

Author:Verne Troyer

“I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.”

People Kind School Bits Support Streets Excited London Unusual Support You Too Cool

Author:David Walliams

“At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.”

Ends Age Wish Opinion Hollywood West London Treated Preparing Naive Jet Toasts Immature Youngsters West End

Author:Jack Wild

“If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.”

People Ifs Feels Trying Passion Winning Like You South London Always Trying Underdog

Author:Jessie Ware

“Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.”

Stills London Apartment

Author:Rebecca Loos

“In London, I take the Tube everywhere.”

London Tubes

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.”

People Wells Eye Cases London Contact Unkind Pavement Unfriendly

Author:Carey Mulligan

“My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.”

Children Names Lord Wall Office Mark London My Children Covered Pearls Earnest Bucks Signatures Autographs Dickens Famous Writers Tennyson Kipling

Author:Debbie Macomber

“I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.”

Grew Grew Up London Disgusting Feeding Frenzy

Author:Denise Mina

“I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.”

Firsts Art Light Used Night Evil Felt Walks Sun Streets Empty London Dawn Apocalypse Zombie All Night Residents Imitating Zombie Apocalypse Up All Night Empty Streets Resident Evil

Author:Edgar Wright

“I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.”

Way Different Girl Dresses Blow London Dry Grooming Immaculate

Author:Rachel Weisz

“I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.”

Different Play Bits Roles Style New York Dresses London Paris

Author:Rachel Zoe

“I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.”

Looks Girl Fashion Hair London Experiments Fake Extensions Disrespect Manchester Hair Extensions

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.”

People Feels Humans Cities Mines Depends London Muse Ambivalence

Author:Will Self

“My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.”

Wanted Mother Heaven Stars Walks Stage Regret London Agents

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?”

Ifs Sacrifice London Bloody Altars Monogamy

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.”

World America London

Author:Noel Gallagher

“London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.”

Different Seems Process Week Streets Fashion Style New York Humour London Constraints Fashion Week

Author:Alexa Chung

“Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.”

Has Beens Art Remember Differences Class London Berlin

Author:Ken Adam

“I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.”

London

Author:Oksana Chusovitina

“For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!”

World Art Important Turns New York London Contemporary Wow Contemporary Art Kiev

Author:Victor Pinchuk

“Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.”

People Streets Personality Skills Sake London Idiot Flaws Bad Things Oxford Misanthropy Misanthrope Personality Flaws Oxford Street

Author:Charlie Brooker

“I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.”

Government Courses Next Asks Plans Draws London Decades Objectives Saving Department Labour Savings Treasury Civil Service

Author:Ed Balls

“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!”

Ifs Firsts Believe Said Would Be Animal Dog Cry Majors Noble London Britain Believe In Me Founders Towers Pope Vessel Great Britain Submarines Westminster

Author:Pierre Daninos

“If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.”

Ifs Ideas Kids Acting Security London Good Ideas Seventies Comprehensive Personal Security Prancing

Author:Steve McFadden

“The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.”

People Remember Memories Heard Worst Suicide London Terrorist Innocent Wounded July Terrorist Attacks Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.”

Happened Lessons Victim Suicide London Spares July Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.”

Art Media London Divides Refuge Conquest

Author:Peter York

“Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.”

World United Attitude Class Millions Middle Style Originals Institutions Conservative London Officials Middle Class Pounds Bonus Rangers Cafes Homogeneous Upper Middle Class Nylon

Author:Peter York

“In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.”

World Country Bigs America House Forget Economy Cutting Achieve Politician Ambition Pressure London Lovely Extras Bangs Tangible Measure Of Success Mrs Thatcher

Author:Peter York

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