"London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to"
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The ellipsis does real work. “London is my home...” trails off like he’s anticipating the objection: hasn’t his career made him global, unrooted, cosmopolitan by default? He answers it with a deceptively simple need: familiarity as a refuge from constant reinvention. In the celebrity economy, where identity is both product and prey, returning to a place that doesn’t require explanation is a form of self-defense.
There’s also a subtle class and cultural subtext. London is not just “where I’m from,” it’s where Law understands the rules: humor, reserve, pace, privacy, the unspoken boundaries that keep public life from swallowing the private one. He’s describing a psychological infrastructure - a city that can still hold him as a person, not a headline.
The intent reads less like nostalgia than maintenance: a reminder that stability isn’t the opposite of ambition; it’s the thing that lets ambition stay human.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Law, Jude. (2026, January 15). London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/london-is-my-home-i-know-whats-right-and-wrong-150532/
Chicago Style
Law, Jude. "London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/london-is-my-home-i-know-whats-right-and-wrong-150532/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/london-is-my-home-i-know-whats-right-and-wrong-150532/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.




