"London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day."
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"what she loved: life, London, this moment of june."
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"Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that."
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"I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie."
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"Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know."
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"The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ"
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"Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing."
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"[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut."
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"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."
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"London is on the whole the most possible form of life."
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"The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be."
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"I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now."
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"Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange."
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"I love London, I love the British people."
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". . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest."
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"To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London."
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"I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school."
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"Before Turner there was no fog in London."
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"When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger"
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"At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England."
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