"Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to sit and catch up properly."
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"The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college."
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"I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous."
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"If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer."
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"There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?"
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"When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered "condemnation is not the solution." We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation."
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"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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"Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place."
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"I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me."
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"Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance."
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"But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman."
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"All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool."
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"My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life."
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"London; a nation, not a city."
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"I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave."
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"My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?"
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"I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work."
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"I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'."
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"I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us."
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"[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time."
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