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"London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay."
"Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?"
"I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast."
"Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness."
"London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted.""
"... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing."
"I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down."
"I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London."
"The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country."
"If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames."
"Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition."
"People are friendlier in New York than London."
"I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly."
"An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else."
"I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second."
"I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland."
