London Quotes
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The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?
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New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.
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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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When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.
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I am definitely a west London girl.
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Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.
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It was a bad night to be about with such a feeling in one's heart. The rain was cold, pitiless and increasing. A damp, keen wind blew down the cross streets leading from the river. The fumes of the gas works seemed to fall with the rain. The roadway was muddy; the pavement greasy; the lamps burned dimly; and that dreary district of London looked its very gloomiest and worst.
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I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!
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I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because I wanted to be part of that hooded tracksuit gang thing.
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The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.
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My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.
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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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Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter.
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Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to go to my wedding.
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If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.
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We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.
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What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.
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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
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I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.
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London is a bad habit one hates to lose.
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But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!
