Seamus Heaney
Related If you live in central London, that's probably fine for you, but in places like Edmonton, where ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who... TEDDY SHERINGHAM Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. REBECCA LOOS In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. ... CAREY MULLIGAN BORIS JOHNSON When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope. JEREMY HUNT I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement. IDRIS ELBA I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in Londo... DAVID WALLIAMS VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia a... DIANE ABBOTT CEELO GREEN I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on t... JONAS ARMSTRONG A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very exp... FINN JONES MOHSIN HAMID I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren'... JULIE CHRISTIE DAN GILBERT There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that arch... CHARLIE COX DAVID BAILEY I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do ... JOE THOMAS London 'Harry Potter' premieres are very special events: There is this sense of love and own... MICHAEL GOLDENBERG PETER ACKROYD We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London. SAM RILEY There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if... JOHNNY VEGAS RAF SIMONS I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London. FERGUS HENDERSON JOHN LE CARRE Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about i... ALBERTO GONZALES My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least ... STEVE BALLMER London has such an unbelievable respect for theater, where L.A. does not. You go to a play here, and... DEVIN KELLEY NEIL GAIMAN Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do. ESSIE DAVIS DON MCCULLIN People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoner... THEO JAMES HANYA YANAGIHARA JOHN LE CARRE ANNIE PARISSE BETTY WHITE TADAO ANDO ROY ROMER I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie.... DOUGLAS HODGE I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there. KATIE PRICE ELLSWORTH KELLY BETTE MIDLER I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l... SAMUEL BARNETT In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved... BILLY BRAGG As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things... CARMEN EJOGO HARVEY FIERSTEIN LINDA MCCARTNEY LAPO ELKANN MAUREEN DOWD STANLEY KUBRICK PETER ACKROYD I just like the lineage and the heritage and the fact that British dance music is still progressing.... JAMIE XX I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train a... LILY RABE I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1... ADRIAN MCKINTY DAN STEVENS JOHN MAJOR DAMIEN HIRST GIANLUIGI BUFFON Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're... DEBORAH MAILMAN EVGENY MOROZOV In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there'... PARMINDER NAGRA ARCHIE PANJABI DANIEL RADCLIFFE There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day worki... IAN ZIERING You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinar... JOAN ARMATRADING We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don&... GEOFF DYER Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would neve... BRUNO TONIOLI CARA DELEVINGNE I can taste a meal and tell you every spice that's in there. I have taste buds like Betty Grable... LYNDA RESNICK MARIO TESTINO I've done Broadway, and it was a fantastic experience, but I'm very happy in London. If work... MICHELLE FAIRLEY People are fans of Dunkin' Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there ever... EVAN WILLIAMS VICTOR PINCHUK DAN BROWN That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ... LARS VON TRIER DAVID ATTENBOROUGH HERSCHEL WALKER JAY-Z JOSH BILLINGS ED WEEKS There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists ... ART MALIK Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the e... SYLVESTER MCCOY TAMORA PIERCE There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no... WALTER MURCH SARA SHERIDAN There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we&... VANNA WHITE JOHN PIPER Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place. CLAIRE FORLANI MARK HADDON I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t... MARK FROST The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Alth... KELIS JENNY SLATE I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London... BEN BRANTLEY I think 'The Sopranos' probably solidifies the misconception that people have about New Jers... FRANK VINCENT RUZWANA BASHIR I don't do very well with extremes of any kind - extreme diets, extreme fitness - so moderation ... KIMBERLY WILLIAMS-PAISLEY ALBERT FINNEY ROBERT PATTINSON
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't ori... 
There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere. 
My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insu... 
There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity cult... 
There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else. 
If you're curious, London's an amazing place. 
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's har... 
I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I a... 
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio... 
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles ... 
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Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... 
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residen... 
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. 
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