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I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to trail Mehan Asnik, a suspected terrorist, through the streets of London. He had escaped from our security services while infected with a plague virus. Tracking him on CCTV, I swear I had him but then, in the rush-hour bustle, lost him. When the secure mobile rang, it was Harry Pearce at Thames House, chewing me out for the slaughter that had been caused by my mistake.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

I knew I wouldn't have another day off for a while, so I needed to get to London immediately.

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.

I like filming in New York a lot myself, but London is accommodating to me; the weather's very good there and the conditions for shooting and the financial conditions, the artistic conditions are good, so it's a pleasant place to shoot.

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.

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

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 lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.

I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.

I love the free spirit in London.

I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.

I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.

In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.

In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.

I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?

In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me.

In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

[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.