#london

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off. ↗

— Alan Davies

#around #bottom #bumps #car #drive

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments. ↗

— Colin Firth

#back #been #come #i #i do

We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did. ↗

— John Gallagher

#again #did #experience #impulse #knew

I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all. ↗

— Samantha Mumba

#apartment #around #away #based #because

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this! ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#article #beckham #believe #bending #big

In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#carry #course #effect #energetic #found

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. ↗

— Julia Ormond

#come #drama #drama school #forgotten #gets

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. ↗

— Kaya Scodelario

#disrespect #down #experiment #extensions #fake

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved. ↗

— Patrick White

#already #anonymous #another #could #decided

Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera seria'; however, paradoxically his personal obsession to obtain complete artistic freedom generated disastrous side-effects that eventually impeded the progress of opera in London. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#classical-music #composers #covent-garden #handel #london