A Quote by Simon Price

Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.

Simon Price

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Bristol Cool Creativity Gets Good Just Lot Maybe Own Place Though Too Unfortunately

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Simon Price
British - Journalist
Born: September 25, 1967

'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

Hannah Murray

I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

Fergus Henderson

For sheer creativity and totality of involvement, 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' with HTV in Bristol was an amazing show to work on, but I think the 'Rolf on Art' series, culminating in the painting of the Queen's portrait to celebrate her 80th birthday, just nudges into the favourite spot.

Rolf Harris

I travel a lot with work... to and from Cornwall and Bristol, so I find myself on lots of trains.

Eleanor Tomlinson

Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that they made a mistake and got the wrong person.

Will Poulter

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

Roland Orzabal

I grew up in Bristol, R.I. I had grandparents and great-grandparents nearby, and because I was the only grandchild until I was 12, I was the center of a lot of adult attention.

Nancy Dubuc

Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They linger in the bay's cool, shallow waters before charging up nearby streams to spawn and create another generation of wild salmon.

Frances Beinecke

When I left Bristol City for Palace, I just wanted to be playing football. I didn't care about the money I was getting or anything. I just wanted to play because I've always been like that, that's just my character.

Yannick Bolasie

I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff on guitar and said, 'Do they sound like this?' And they did.

Curt Smith

I'd love to be part Apache Indian. But I'm from Bristol. No Apaches there mate.

Tricky

You know you've become a brat when you have a room you like at the Bristol in Paris.

Alexa Chung

I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn't stimulating in the same way. I loved being at Bristol, but I missed the thrill of being on set.

Will Poulter

The standard Bristol set at being a mother is high for a woman to have to step into. She, as a mom, is crushing it.

Dakota Meyer

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.