My mum and dad had four pubs when we were growing up, but the main one was the New Inn in Hattersley, on the estate. It was a very good pub.
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
The sport has come on - we do not just play in pubs any more and there are massive international competitions.
In spite of its relatively nascent rise in popularity, tea joints across the country are romanticized, quite like beer pubs in the West.
By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings.
I don't go to pubs.
In the very beginning, we went on tours with Rammstein in really small clubs. We didn't even have a record out. We played in restaurants and pubs in the south of Germany.
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I'm fond of that part of the world. It's quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.
Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.
A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.
Pubs create an environment for people to react, for families, friends to go and meet.
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.
I know Australians are no strangers to pubs, but in the U.K., the pub is a real meeting place because the houses can be quite small, so the pub is an extension of the living space.
People were following me home in cars, singing outside my window at my flat. I couldn't go to pubs or supermarkets or walk down the street. It was bizarre, but that was my life.
In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.
Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at.
Islamic State practise a brand of Islamic law so strict that apparently Raqqa only has two Irish Pubs.
I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.
I'm just getting to know the local pubs. I do enjoy going out in east London.
I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.
I grew up in pubs so my whole thing is 'the game happened,' people would go into the pub afterwards and discuss 'it should have been a penalty, he should have scored that.'
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
I don't like discotheques, pubs, or late-night parties.
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.
Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
I'd been gigging since I was 14, doing little competitions and pubs and clubs and old people's homes.
London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with so many fantastic pubs and restaurants. I would urge people to get out there and see as much as possible.
I played a lot of pubs, and some were a bit rougher than others, but once you got on, it was the same reception everywhere.
Being around my local community, seeing how many pubs are closing down there, it hurts me.
I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.
For me, normal means freedom to live life as we choose, from cramming into packed planes to go on holiday to crowding into pubs for birthday parties.
I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.
Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.
Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?
I love pubs and I love pub culture.
We'd get residencies in the local pubs. It was just an excuse to have a free tab at the bar, and then at some point people started chucking me a few quid for it. There was no game plan to any of it.
My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever.
I worked in pubs when I was younger. My nickname was Morticia.
You meet a better class of person in pubs.
A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.
In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment.
When you are traveling in vaudeville, you experience so many different kinds of audiences, depending on what time of the week it is, how long the pubs have been open, and things like that.
Night buses serve not only the leisure economy- pubs, bars, clubs, theatres and concerts- but also hundreds of thousands of night workers.
I was only a young whippersnapper at that point. I was in pubs playing Barry Manilow songs. I didn't know what to expect.
Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.
I get recognised by complete strangers in pubs, misrecognised by them and I dont have to work every weekend of my life anymore which is nice.
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
I started an all-girl band called Helen when I was 15. It wasn't a precocious thing to do - everyone we knew was in a band, and all the bars and pubs in Leeds put on nights.
People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
I have seen pretty horrible blokes thinking they can do pretty much what they like over the years, not just in showbusiness but in ordinary jobs and in pubs and stuff.
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.
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