I live 50 miles from London and we’ve got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It’s disgusting. Just because it’s a rural area, it gets forgotten. – Roger Daltrey
London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity. – Orlando Bloom
I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman’s grant. – Ron Moody
I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London – I had starred opposite Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier in ‘The Wilby Conspiracy’ – but everyone told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place, they said, and I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me. – Persis Khambatta
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic – intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements – with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London’s rock n’ roll underground. – Rachel Zoe
There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries. – Robert Fortune
If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York. – Roman Abramovich
When I come to London now it’s like being in L.A., because they know me like I’m at home. – Raphael Saadiq
Four months after we finished shooting, I’d been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat – actually in London – and he’s sitting there and goes, ‘Wow, I just can’t believe how ripped you are.’ – Ryan Reynolds
I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show. – Richard C. Armitage
I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city. – Rachel Platten
I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London. – Ruth Negga
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There’s hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London’s texture. – Peter Ackroyd
My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the ‘London Sunday Times’ has been very aspirational. – Robert Lacey
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr. – Peter Ackroyd
In 2012 the best venue I played was Union Chapel in London. It’s a beautiful room, the sound is exceptional, and they treated us very well. – Ron Pope
I did a reality TV show in London called ‘I’d Do Anything,’ and when I got put in the program, they said, ‘What is your ultimate dream?’ and I said, ‘Broadway.’ – Rachel Tucker
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
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school. – Patrick White
I’m particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it’s that area I’m very alive to. And I don’t encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that. – Rachel Cusk
In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn’t mention money. – Robert Mundell
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries. – Seamus Heaney