The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

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.

Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?

I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.

I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was.

My mum, Jennie Buckman, was a north London Jew who, with my dad, proudly chose to raise me and my two brothers in Hackney.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy.

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

I'd be quite happy if cars were banned from central London. Why are we not using little tuk-tuks rather than big black cabs?

I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that life was noisy in London.

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.

I played the Piccadilly Theater with "Gypsy" and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for 40 years.

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.

There's so much talent around here, east London in particular is full of talent. Whether that be boxing or football or music.

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

The paparazzi is kind of crazy here in L.A., but it's nothing like it is in London. They are animals over there, it's insane.

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.

I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.

I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland to recharge my batteries.

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London.

I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.

Living in London, the water is really harsh, and my hair got so bad as soon as I moved there. But you can't really avoid that.

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.

I had promised myself that after 'Gajini,' I would go back and take a break. However, 'London Dreams' began almost immediately.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

When I was in London for The Brits recently I read that I had asked for a Jacuzzi in the dressing room - how ridiculous is that?

I think for me the final push to move to Paris was the fact I wanted an adventure and I was slightly bored of my life in London.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

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