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To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot). -- George Herbert
I am, and always will be, proud to be a Hackney girl. -- Leona Lewis
Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London -- Meg Hillier
Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school. -- Lily James
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours. -- Sharon Horgan
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain. -- Diane Abbott
I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney. -- Iain Sinclair
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition. -- Iain Sinclair
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. -- Iain Sinclair
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote... -- Lord Byron
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines! -- Alexander Pope
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. -- Rose Byrne
The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the common eye. Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread. This is a general tax which all must pay, From those who scribble, down to those who play. -- Charles Churchill

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