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Leeds is quite laid-back. -- Matthew Lewis
We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time. -- Craig Johnston
I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. -- Graham Coxon
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition. -- Leon Jouhaux
I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957. -- Geoffrey Boycott
At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again. -- Robbie Keane
My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming. -- Lionel Barber
People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. -- Andy Goldsworthy
I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked. -- Sophie Hannah
I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together. -- Robbie Keane
I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps. -- Sam Riley
I've followed Leeds since I was a little kid. I used to come home from sport in the afternoon, me and my brother, and watch 'Match of the Day.' I love the club. I want nothing but success for the club. -- Russell Crowe
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I've got my life and 'Harry Potter,' where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before. -- Matthew Lewis
I've got the FA Cup tattooed on my leg and the Leeds United emblem, too. On my back, I've got, 'It's been emotional,' which is my line from 'Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.' I'm fond of my tattoos, and I'm still having more. -- Vinnie Jones
Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me. -- Melanie Brown
I am happy being based in Leeds, I feel settled. -- Lucy Pargeter
Leeds are enjoying more possession now that they have the ball. -- Simon Brotherton
I'd go back to Leeds at any time, but not right now -- Gus Poyet
My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad. -- Brandon Sanderson
All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around. -- Anthony Kiedis
Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough. -- Jonathan Woodgate
They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less. -- Nasser Hussain
There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six -- Fred Dinenage
I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naÃ¯ve and narrow-minded. -- John Newman
I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner. -- Sebastian Coe
I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.) -- Charles Stross
Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them -- George Best
A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds. -- Terry Pratchett
People say you're too good - you're never too good to go down, believe me. I've seen it at Leeds. We had a better team at Leeds than we have now and they went down eventually. -- Jonathan Woodgate
I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens. -- Ken Bates
I couldnt really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt n vinegar crisps. -- Sam Riley
I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV. -- Carol Vorderman
I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug. -- Holliday Grainger
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties. -- Albert Brooks
I live in Leeds, which is about 200 miles north of London, and I get to go and do all the 'Harry Potter' stuff and make great films and be part of this wonderful thing all around the world, and then I get to go home and chill out with my friends in Leeds and go watch the football and go to the pub. -- Matthew Lewis

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