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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

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.

The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.

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.

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

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

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

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

I like where I live here, in London.

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.

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

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.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

On the last tour, I remember being in London and listening to their last album, ... I enjoyed it very much and for Teddy to ask me to do this is a true honor, really an honor.

On the edge of London restaurants for instance are doing particularly well, it is the central core of the capital that is suffering.

I wish to state very strongly that the above reasons and others cited by the Attorney General through their lawyers in the London High Court are not sufficient or valid reasons justifying the ousting of jurisdiction of the Zambian courts in this matter,

I guess it's fitting it's against them. There was a time early last year where you could see us (him and MacDonald) as the tandem in London this season.

I would have thought that for the organizers of the Tour de France, the benefit of coming to London is having famous sites in the background as the cyclists whiz past.

When I arrived in London 11 years ago, restaurant service was terrible. It's getting better every year. Americans tend to be over-the-top about complaining.

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.

My Fair Lady. If they can move a London theater audience to applaud, they have done pretty well.

My hunch is BP and Shell won't fall, but they won't rise much. That makes it difficult for London to outperform.

My experience in Austin, for example, is impoverished because my coffee experience is the same experience as anywhere else. It's almost dispiriting to find yourself in New York or London and every corner has a Starbucks. Part of what defines space and gives it meaning is its uniqueness.

Post the London bombings of last year, every school that was signed up from the U.S. came and performed and did so completely safely.

NYSE is looking for acquisitions. London seems totally obvious, totally sensible and I expect them to come galloping over the hill to conclude something at around the 950p to 10 pound level in the months to come.

People will spend two hours looking around London or Paris to save $2 on exchange costs. That's really crazy.

Naturally the detail of the mechanism that will make this happen needs further work but it is great news for the country that both men's and women's teams are now certain to be represented at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

I'd like to make a movie in the South of France. I'd like to make a movie in London again. And, I'm going to make a movie in Amsterdam.

If we're prepared and we do come in big numbers to visit the U.S. and Florida in particular, I think we're going to be pretty upset with the idea that some people in Florida have deemed London an unsafe place to visit.

Leonard Feather... was the one who arranged for me to come to London to work for the BBC, and we remained friends until Leonard passed away in 1994.

Since starting this business, I have always wanted to design bed and bath products. The talent and experience at London Fog/Homestead has been the ideal partnership for us. We have worked closely with them from start to finish on this program and we are thrilled with the results.

Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

Scottish play in London Division One and will provide a good test as they've recruited a lot over the summer. We're still trying a few new combinations but the bulk of the squad against Scottish will be involved against Dings.

Scott went to see a specialist in London and it was felt he may have a damaged cartilage so it was best to have the operation done sooner rather than later. It's another blow for the club and the player, but these are the cards we have been dealt, and we have to stick together and get on with things. It's a shame for Scott because he has been our best player this season and to lose him is a blow for everyone concerned.

Many, many honest women and men in the world do not believe the lies which are being fabricated in Washington and London and this is a very important international development,

So it was a bit tricky, 'cause most of the people in London belonged to this London clique and we didn't. So we didn't go to parties or hang out.

Similar things apply when you are going to warm climates. In Los Angeles, where the sun is bright, some suit fabrics which look gray in London take on a strange greenish tint (in Los Angeles).

'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

I love the free spirit in London.

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

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.

Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

I have a terrific, marvellous, unbelievably helpful editor in London and she has the biggest influence, but even so we disagree as much as we agree.

Kings Bay could certainly be expanded to accommodate a larger contingent of ships and personnel, and this region would welcome the additional jobs that may be transferred from Connecticut, ... However, I am concerned about the adverse economic impact on the New London area, the abandonment of a huge installation of facilities, and, less quantitatively, a loss of some of the proud submariners heritage of our historic association with service and training in New London.

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Khalid is preparing for the London Marathon, but to go 1-2 was still exciting for us.

I can learn a lot from Paul. I need him to get his opinions. There are other good runners ? the Olympic and world champion and the London Marathon winner ? but with Paul there, it's good for us.

I found the London High Court building to be a magnificent example of neo-Gothic architecture. I look forward to returning soon to view it from a vantage point other than the witness stand.

I am really disappointed to have to miss this year's event. The Flora London Marathon is something that is extremely important to me, and I have done everything possible to resolve the problem and get to the start line.

I am really sending out the same message to the terrorists as I have been all along which is that London will endure and prevail.

I can't have an unidentified car disappearing up the road any more, because it'll be captured on CCTV. After all, it was CCTV that helped police capture the London bombers.

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...

Funds are buying and China's demand is still healthy. The sharp rise was to catch up with gains in London in the past week.

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.

From one Olympic city to another, we salute London. The years of hard work, dedication and planning on behalf of the London bid team have resulted in a fantastic choice for the 2012 Summer Games,

From our initial observations, our hard work has paid off. This is a springboard for the next 30 days. We are in good shape to take the battle even harder and further towards our goal of bringing the Olympic Games to London in 2012.

I am disappointed that James has decided to end his association with Bath Rugby and join London Irish, however I wish him well for the future.

I am concerned about the adverse economic impact on the New London area, the abandonment of a huge installation of facilities and, less quantitatively, a loss of some of the proud submariners' heritage of our historic association with service and training at New London.

I experienced the effect firsthand on my return flight from London to Hong Kong last weekend. There were three passengers in my cabin -- a 10 percent occupancy rate at best. Hong Kong's restaurants are mostly empty. It is difficult to enjoy a meal with masked waiters tiptoeing around in silence. If you want to frighten people in Hong Kong, just sneeze.

Glasgow did really well for basically giving people a good time. To come second to London and just pip Edinburgh, which has been a winner in past years, is a superb achievement.

I don't think I am going to play in London with an orchestra until I can be assured that I'm getting adequate rehearsal,"" declares Kennedy. ""And if that's never, I won't play in London with an English orchestra. I'll have to bring one in from somewhere else.

I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

Certainly, it looks like we are targeting $600 in the near term. It may happen in London overnight.

carefully consider the submarine design construction life cycle support capabilities inherent with Electric Boat and the unique synergy between Electric Boat and New London Submarine Base....

I am still chasing the world record but London will certainly not be the place.

Catwalk pieces that don't sell outside London are often shipped down to the capital where we know they will.

We can confirm that the 15-year-old girl was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus as a result of the London testing.

Having successfully held the Olympic Games twice, London has rich experience in this field.

What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.