“I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.” ThinkingYearsDonePlayCharacterWantedCoupleYears AgoDisappointmentActressesLondonObsessedBroadwaySeagullChekhovNina Author:Carey Mulligan
“London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always eating out, and when they're at home they don't cook the way they did ten years ago. They're all sitting around in cafés, like the Continentals, drinking coffee and chattering and watching the world go by.” WorldWayYearsHomePastChangedTenEatingSittingYears AgoDrinkingLondonDecadesCoffeeCooksSitting AroundDrinking CoffeeEating OutAlways Eating Author:Doris Lessing
“When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.” YearsHandsBeautifulLife IsLordMorningYears AgoLondonFiftyShakesCompanionGood LifeMissionaryAnother LifeLife Is Good Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.” YearsLongPhilosophyDreamKidsTakenCrazyStageLong TimeYears AgoLondonCheerfulnessProzacRitalin Author:Leonard Cohen
“To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.” YearsActionSocialCitiesYears AgoSpeciesLondonSixtyBishopsDiscussingPublic GoodOrigin Of SpeciesSocial Action Book:The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion
“Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China.” WorldYearsTodayAbleDesignYears AgoBoxesChinaLondonPartnersJapanArchitect Author:Zhang Xin
“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
“As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.” WantYearsFilmNightSpaceViewsWatchesAudienceFourExampleYears AgoTheaterLondonFilmmakerSeatsStanleyOdysseySpace Odyssey2001 A Space Odyssey Author:Michael Mann
“Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'” YearsLongSpiritThreeWallBearsHundredYears AgoAdversityPrisonLondonCellsSentimentsPrisonerTowersImpatienceImprisonment Author:James Keller