I was at stage school in Birmingham Rep when I was called down to London for an audition in the National Theatre.… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
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I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to… — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
I believe London is the city New York wants to be when it grows up. I love the wealth of cultural resources… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
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I fell in love with it. Walking around just feels so cinematic. I find the aris- tocratic parts of London so unattractive… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
I applied to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and didn't get in the first year, so I worked… — Chloe Pirrie Copy Share Image
What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen… — Peter James Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
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I ended up landing in London out of high school, and I saw a performance that Vanessa Redgrave gave, just because it… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw… — David Guetta Copy Share Image
'Il faut vivre' might almost be the French national motto from 1940 to June 1944, but who is to say ours would… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris,… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
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I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
As soon as that was kind of green-lit, it became very obvious to me what I wanted to do and it was… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
Yes, she was a scandal. Her brother simply didn’t know it. “I fell in the Serpentine today.” “Yes, well, that doesn’t usually… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus… — Skandar Keynes Copy Share Image
London is a very big city, Manchester is calmer. I live near the training ground, so I do things around there in… — Juan Mata Copy Share Image
Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
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What inspires me is what I see people wearing on the streets of the world from New York to London and beyond.… — Steve Madden Copy Share Image
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I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
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In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi… — Edwin Black Copy Share Image
...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
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Many people in my constituency come to see me absolutely distraught at the prospect of losing their private rented flat because of… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I wanted to become an actor. I went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is one of the main drama… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
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![“This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon…” quote by Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6b/harold-evans-15687_bloody_this-impressed-me-when-i-was-the-editor_1155576.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Naomi Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/917/naomi-wallace-53600_alternatives_i-d-been-reading-daniel-defoe-s-journal_2455493.jpg)
![“I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus and very occasionally this whole other role [ in Chronicels of Narnia] slips into my home life. Randomly people recognise me but even then it's very minor. It's not as if my life has been turned on…” quote by Skandar Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3da/skandar-keynes-53983_bus_i-kind-of-feel-that-once-we-re-back-in-l_786024.jpg)
