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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.


Carter Burwell

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In case you're wondering, Old York looks absolutely nothing like New York.
It looks older.
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KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I only move forwards, never backwards, darling.
GRACE JONES I love the fact that it looks old.
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CAROL COVIN ...his life was dominating by conflicting ideas, as often happens in periods of transition. The turb...
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FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
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DEBRA ROBERTS I know her backwards and forwards. I loved Monica, but you still get tired of it.
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SOREN KIRKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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ERIK LARSON I love moving in extra dimensions. Not just backwards and forwards, but up and down and around.
KIRSTEN HUBBARD I have no regrets. (I)f you regret things, (then) you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer ...
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest...
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JAKRAPOB PENKAIR The kangaroos appear to hop up and down when the page is moved backwards and forwards, and my depart...
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ABIGAIL BRESLIN It looks like it's going to impact a little bit further north than Katrina did.
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MARY-KATE OLSEN New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than th...
ALAN BRIEN The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
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JAMES GILL One of my really good friends in New York is a musician and looks just like Lindsay Buckingham. We a...
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ELLIOTT SMITH It looks like they have very fast forwards and big defense. They're going to be a tough team to beat...
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SAM TAYLOR-WOOD A lot of it is giving them enough respect, talking rather than yelling. If I want respect, then I ha...
BRIANNA MORROW It seems we throw away 10 points and then he gives it back. It goes backwards and forwards.
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ANTHONY BOURDAIN In the short-term it's a bit bearish as it looks like the whole world is going to move cargoes to th...
COLIN TANG New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket...
EDDIE HUANG It looks like (the team's going backwards), but I don't know if that's part of the deal. I don't kno...
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MATT LAUER I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
SHIRLEY CONRAN New York has cut fees more than other districts. Not that fees are lower in New York, but they cut t...
LYNN LOPUCKI It may well be that the risk of a terrorist attack on New York airports is greater than that of an a...
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P. DIDDY, PUFF DADDY Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York...
P. DIDDY PUFF DADDY When the forwards play like that, there is no better team in the world to play on the wing for.
GARETH THOMAS I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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ANGELA CARTER America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults...
ANGELA CARTER Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain ...
ANGELA CARTER There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for ...
ANGELA CARTER Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a relea...
JIMMY CARTER The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
ANGELA CARTER Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does no...
ANGELA CARTER Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggres...
ANGELA CARTER We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and som...
JIMMY CARTER