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“The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.”

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Author:Ken Livingstone

“On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to him, look how people feel about this. Look how the country has reacted with revulsion to the revelations. So do the decent and sensible thing and reconsider, think again, about your bid for BSkyB.”

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Author:Nick Clegg

“I love the fact you can walk down a street in London and get lost, even though you've lived here 20 years.”

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Author:Stephen Moyer

“London and the south-east of England are very crowded spaces. Wherever a new runway is placed, thousands will be affected. Residents in nearby Longford, Harmondsworth and Sipson, which lie to the north of Heathrow, face having their homes compulsorily purchased for land to build the new runway.”

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Author:Tim Bowler

“I went to London to do the stuff. I was like "What am I going to do? What's going to happen?" But then once you start working, you forget all that and you start enjoying what you're doing. Once you enjoy the process, you know that people are going to do the same thing. If you don't enjoy it and just do it like a job, then it's going to be feel that way. That's my theory of doing a movie.”

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Author:A. R. Rahman

“I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.”

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Author:Ben Richards

“Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to... to throw that feeling off. So, it's right and fitting that the Beatles came from Liverpool. If they hadn't, I wouldn't have got involved. It wouldn't have interested me. And they wouldn't have hired me.”

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Author:Derek Taylor

“Occasionally, when I lived in London, I would have sex with a girl from an aristocratic family. I always enjoyed doing to them what their ancestors did to my country.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.”

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Author:Nicholas Monsarrat

“Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.”

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Author:Chris Tucker

“London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.”

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.”

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Author:Freida Pinto

“I hope to see London once ere I die.”

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Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time...so that's how it all came about”

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Author:Frances Ruffelle

“I record at the same place [Toe Rag or FatSounds Studios in London], with the same people [Liam Watson at Toe Rag and Ed Deegan at Fatsounds], every time. It makes it effortless, and another reason for the vast output when I do go in and record stuff.”

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Author:Holly Golightly

“I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds.”

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Author:Marti Webb

“I got shocked really bad at a show once. We do this big intro to a cover of the Smiths' "Panic on the Streets of London" and I got a huge shock and went, 'Ohhhh!' We had to stop the show for 15 minutes.”

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Author:Pete Yorn

“People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.”

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Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner

“I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.”

“It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?”

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Author:Moby

“My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but a drummer at heart. I remember seeing the guitar player do the solo from "Werewolves of London" with his teeth, and that was the moment that had me hooked.”

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Author:Charlie Worsham

“Nothing is sure in London, except expense.”

London Expenses

Author:William Shenstone

“London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.”

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Author:Katherine Jenkins

“England? England is in London right?”

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Author:Eminem

“Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.”

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Author:Fernando Torres

“I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.”

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Author:Phil Daniels

“I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.”

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Author:Rebecca Mader

“I think I enjoy London the best as it's where I started my career. But Paris is beautiful too.”

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Author:Alek Wek

“Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.”

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Author:Charlie Brooker

“Where you are is what you eat. When I'm in London I'll have beans on toast for lunch. On holiday - what? Tapas? Go on then I'll have a bit. You eat whatevers in that area.”

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Author:Karl Pilkington

“The reason there are so many gyms in London is because the amount of gay people who are here now.”

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Author:Karl Pilkington

“I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.”

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Author:Mackenzie Davis

“I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.”

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Author:Neil Oliver

“On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city - and London more than anywhere - has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can't allow it to become a monoculture.”

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Author:Marc Almond

“A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.”

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Author:Marc Almond

“Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it centered in New York, London, Los Angeles or Nashville but rather St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Paris.”

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Author:Seymour Stein

“I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful people who feel incredibly entitled, perhaps justifiably, but I don't want to be around viciously entitled people.”

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Author:Moby

“The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.”

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Author:Betty Dodson

“When I bought my first house in London with my husband-to-be, our surveyor said: "Nicki, you're paying top dollar, but it's not an investment," and I said: "But we're buying a home, not an investment."”

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Author:Nicki Chapman

“I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.”

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Author:Roselee Goldberg

“You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.”

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Author:Kevin Systrom

“I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor, it's a brilliant place to live because you've got inspiration all the time, wherever you are. You can turn a corner and you'll be in mansion houses with beautiful gardens and Ferraris, and you'll turn back on yourself and it'll be ghetto land. But I think that's brilliant.”

“I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.”

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Author:Alice Lowe

“Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.”

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Author:Alice Lowe

“So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.”

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Author:Alice Lowe

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