It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I grew up in southeast London and there's a lot of brutalist architecture. — Kate Herron Copy Share Image
People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore. — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market. — Rob Beckett Copy Share Image
I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
“The Lanterns Studio Theatre is the best East London production with a wide production with 9m Full Length Mirrors, Wardrobe/Costume Room, Studio… — Lanterns Studio Theatre Copy Share Image
When I was visiting the U.K. as a teenager in 2006, I got lost in an East London market. — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
“Lanterns Studio Theatre is the best East London Venue that provides the 9m Full-Length Mirrors, Wardrobe/Costume Room, Studio Sized, Wi-Fi at an… — Lanterns Studio Theatre Copy Share Image
I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard. — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London. — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London's Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an… — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
We've grown up with American movies. Not to say that American movies - or movies that have been based in Watts, Compton,… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
“Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks.… — John Owen Theobald Copy Share Image
I work with refugee families in Hackney in my local area in east London. Sport brings them together. A lot of the… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
“SPENCE, THAT DOUR, IMPOSING LADY EAST OF LONDON, has grown a friendly face in my absence. I’ve never been so happy to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“British / Pakistani ISIS suspect, Zakaria Saqib Mahmood, is arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of recruiting jihadists to fight in Syria •… — Zakaria Zaqib Mahmood Copy Share Image
Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
“When all’s said and done they’re a strange breed, these South and East Londoners, and they’re amused by little things. Their love… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
There's so much talent around here, east London in particular is full of talent. Whether that be boxing or football or music. — Kano Copy Share Image
I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Every household down my road in Peckham, south-east London, stunk of deep-fat frying and I'm sure every working-class home around the country… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
“You realise that people actually have to live in among all this and that east London is the bill, the tab that… — John Niven Copy Share Image
I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing, beards now. I'll be in east London, and lads come up to me: 'Yo man, what beard oil… — Rag'n'Bone Man Copy Share Image
I had this funny family. At one end, they were breeding dogs in south-east London - for greyhound racing - and at… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I grew up in a feminist household in Hackney, East London, my mum was responsible in many ways for the feminist stain… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
I have the tools to climb the mountain so I don't mind climbing mountains. I have climbed mountains since I was growing… — Sol Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm from Stratford, East London. I can get down and dirty. I just roll my sleeves up and get on with it. — Sol Campbell Copy Share Image
My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working class family in South East London with no money. — Keeley Hazell Copy Share Image
I'm just getting to know the local pubs. I do enjoy going out in east London. — Charlotte Ritchie Copy Share Image
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