Gertrude Lawrence (4 July 1898 – 6 September 1952) was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York.
If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.
Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.
Everything that has value has its price. Nothing worth having is ever handed to you gratis.
In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.
Thomas Peterffy
C. L. R. James
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ugo Monye
Guy Maddin
Vahid Halilhodzic
Josef Koudelka
Steve Swallow
Quinton Aaron
Bill Haywood
David de Kretser
Tony Wilson