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London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.
Emma Thompson

Scared, Cruelty, Changing

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
Annie Lennox

Home, Point, Lived

I like where I live here, in London.
Annie Lennox

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
Doris Lessing

Thought, Possible, City

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.
David Icke

Language, Mass, Olympics

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
Alan Rickman

Forget, Sometimes, Else

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
Sienna Miller

Positive, Everyone, Times

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
Vivienne Westwood

Love, Find, Young

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
David Bailey

Amazing, Place, Curious

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
David Bailey

Success, Money, Everyone

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
David Bailey

Money, Real, Everything

I don't feel very optimistic in London.
David Bailey

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'
Robert De Niro

Place, Exciting, City

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.
Robert Pattinson

Good, Leave, Felt

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
Boris Johnson

Job, Olympics, Mayor

They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.
Johnny Vegas

Living, Realize, Full

There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource.
Johnny Vegas

Everything, Made, Away

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.
Johnny Vegas

Time, Home, Lots

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
Kate Moss

Working, Looking, Started

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
Jon Meacham

Power, Human, Others

I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
Clive Owen

Love, Live, Long

For me, London is and always will be home.
Clive Owen

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
Daniel Craig

Life, Time, Down

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Funny, Hate, Humanity

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'
James Buchan

Great, Book, Result

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
Diane Abbott

Country, Problem, Gun

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
Diane Abbott

Sense, Finally, Outsider

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
Gary Oldman

Age, Nice, Around

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
Gary Oldman

End, Done, Made

I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
Gary Oldman

Music, Time, Soul

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