In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.
Peter Ackroyd
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If I become mayor of London, my single biggest priority will be to build thousands more homes every year. I will set a target to make half of all the new homes that are built genuinely affordable, with first dibs for Londoners.
Sadiq Khan
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London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It's a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces - fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous.
Rory MacLean
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I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
Charles Keating
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I have a huge affinity with London, and I have a lot of relatives here - now and before I was born. I pretty much look at London as the centre of the universe.
Shahid Khan
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I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'
Rachel Tucker
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I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.
Ruth Negga
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I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.
Billy Joe Saunders
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My first Eurotrip, I want to fly into London and take a train to all the traditional must-see cities.
Scott Michael Foster
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London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
Orlando Bloom
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When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.
Martin Parr
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I love London. I came here to discover something different. It's a great city; I like how people think here.
Alexandre Lacazette
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There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.
Timothy West
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I love London! But the thing I love the most is the Premier League.
Olivier Giroud
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I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.
Mona Eltahawy
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There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.
Alex Ferguson
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Of course I've done musicals here in London.
Norman Wisdom
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I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.
Naomi Alderman
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I've never been outside Heathrow so it will be exciting to see what London has to offer. I think I've only flown into Heathrow maybe twice.
Misty May-Treanor
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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
Alan Rickman
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I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.
Noel Gallagher
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If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under.
Laura Mvula
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I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.
Mimi Rogers
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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats
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