Quotes About Hackney

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

I'm from Ghana and I grew up in Hackney around a lot of aunties which exposed me to beauty and skin stuff.

You can't swing a cat in Ireland without hitting a saint.

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

On Friday, I tend to wrap up at about 5.30pm after a very hectic week at work. I love nothing better than heading straight to my local cinema, the Hackney Picture House, to catch a film with friends.

'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they thought to be stereotypical. However, what I would say is that the writer went and lived in Hackney in East London for a long time and did his research really well.

I grew up in a feminist household in Hackney, East London, my mum was responsible in many ways for the feminist stain on the socialist party, and my dad had really strong feminist leanings.

Solid-steel fire doors had been built into entrances to the public rooms to deal with just such an emergency. It would have taken Hackney only a few moments to isolate the writing room from the rest of B deck by lowering its fire door. Clarence Hackney did not take that preventive measure. Smoke billowed after him as he ran for the telephone near the door connecting the first-class lounge to the smoking room. He dialed the bridge.

I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.

I take it you don't ride often in town?" "No, I travel by foot or hackney." "But your brother…" Kathleen began, thinking of Devon's assured horsemanship. "He rides every morning. A big dapple gray that's as mean as the devil if it goes one day without hard exercise." A pause. "They have that in common.