To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.
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Related Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York... BETH HENLEY Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other. ILANA GLAZER We want to change it from a New York institution with regional branches into a global institution wi... RICHARD HOLBROOKE It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective stor... AGATHA CHRISTIE It will give Jamie a new start. Whether it was pressure of being a first-round pick in New York, and... DON MALONEY Only in New York, kids, only in New York. CINDY ADAMS I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape... ZOE LISTER-JONES There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from... JEFF CHANG In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York ... ROBERT GOTTLIEB New York has cut fees more than other districts. Not that fees are lower in New York, but they cut t... LYNN LOPUCKI I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state. DAVID ZABEL A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York e... HUGH FERRISS I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like,... JULIAN CASABLANCAS I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a ... ALICIA WITT Hopefully, it will bring some people who have seen the exhibit in New York to Las Vegas, and people ... THOMAS KRENS Obviously, Miami is a different way of life than New York. My grittier street songs are definitely i... JOE CARTAGENA New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most p... GRIFFIN DUNNE New Yorkers know how to borrow wildly. You know, Louis Armstrong was not a New York musician. He wen... MARGO JEFFERSON I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also becaus... ALICIA WITT Each man reads his own meaning into New York MEYER BERGER Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New... JOHN GUARE I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a N... CARL PALADINO It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubbor... ASAP ROCKY Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosop... JOE LHOTA People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your childre... LI NA I love the life in New York. New York has an excitement about it. You have so many people, so many d... PAULA CREAMER People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during ... LANA DEL REY I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. RUSH LIMBAUGH I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student Le... JOHN MELLENCAMP Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other JOHN UPDIKE When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col... STACEY FARBER I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got ... MERRITT WEVER In New York, everyone is always working. SANTIAGO MOLINA I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budget... TOM GOLISANO [NEW YORK (CNN) --] If you're going to live with it, you have to love it, ... Everything that comes ... ANNA SUI Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. GROUCHO MARX Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does GROUCHO MARX That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to. AMOR TOWLES I can only say we were trying to do whatever we could to help Rachel's voice be heard, This is far t... JAMES NICOLA My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher edu... GERTRUDE B. ELION People who grew up in major cities may wonder why the hell I would act like it's a big deal to be un... ANNA KENDRICK There are currently no negotiations, no agreements and no deals between us, We talk with everybody, ... SCOTT PETERSON My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund ... ROBERT WILSON Everyone comes to live in New York because they want to achieve something, and for that reason, ther... DANIEL HUMM Money comes only from the support and confidence of people who believe in the message of the candida... BRUCE TEITELBAUM New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There ... ADAM SAVAGE New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize ... FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the en... PAUL BLOOM Everything is now stacked in favor of the government. You're going to see pictures of New York City ... ANDREW MCBRIDE Let's not forget the fact the recent boom that we've experienced has been attributable very much to ... JAMES GILL I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so wh... BILLY CHILDISH Coming to New York is like a big hug, everyone is so welcoming. There's something about here, ev... ARCHIE PANJABI I think Sharon comes to New York proud of his country. DAN GILLERMAN And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for... WARREN CUCCURULLO The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost. MURRAY KEMPTON New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize ... FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA I've been to Marquee in New York. And this is the upscale of the Marquee in New York. KEVIN FEDERLINE I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I ... MARY-KATE OLSEN I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New... ROBIN LORD TAYLOR In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West. EVE BABITZ A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New Y... LANA DEL REY Is that your final answer? Here in New York garbage men, bus drivers, taxi cab drivers, bus drivers,... REGIS PHILBIN I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I m... JIMMY SMITS New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot my... VERA WANG Not only making it to the finals in New York, but I think some of them this year have a very good ch... LEE OLSEN [Douglas told a New York Daily News columnist that his report of a Douglas-Dowd relationship] got me... ELIZABETH VARGAS With half of Broadway audiences coming from outside the New York area and Broadway being the No. 1 r... ALAN COHEN We strongly believe that energy choice benefits New York consumers as reported by the New York State... BADAR KHAN The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York,... BRIAN COX All kinds of kids from New York and stuff and me from Jefferson, Maine. JOSH JONES That's because there are a lot of conventions in town during that time, and everyone wants to go to ... CHRIS MCGINNIS I think we got our main message across, that New York is a place that will welcome athletes, teams, ... DAN DOCTOROFF Many people have moved from New York, Boston and Philadelphia. BOB MERCURIO For people who look closely at energy, the idea of New York being a callous and wasteful place is lo... DAVID HAMILTON People are having fun in other cities. And people have a lot more casual sex in New York. SCOTT SWANSON I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name ac... FINN WITTROCK Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as lon... BENITA VALENTE Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used... BILL CULLEN My understanding is that the law in New York is very vague when it comes to price gouging. MARC VIOLETTE I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching. FAITH PRINCE Those people in New York are not gonna change me none. ELVIS PRESLEY That showed me how much any performer should be putting into it. That was really amazing. Angry, ric... DEAN TURNER New York is much bigger and clearly will have more deaths than cities like Washington and Detroit. T... LAURENCE KALKSTEIN The collaboration with the musicians of the New York Philharmonic is sheer joy. The Orchestra is so ... LORIN MAAZEL I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art ... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution. CATHY ELKIES We strongly believe that energy choice benefits New York consumers. New York residents are also bene... BADAR KHAN I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York. NANCY MCKEON And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jer... JASON ALEXANDER People will be shocked to see how safe it is to live in New York City. Victims and offenders are pre... ANDREW KARMEN A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping somethi... KENNETH LANGONE [NEW YORK, New York (CNN)--In] Something to Talk About ... She realizes upon discovering that her hu... JULIA ROBERTS The New York Times gave me permission to be funny and write about what it is to be a woman and a mot... DEBRA GALANT I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown h... NATALIE DORMER The moment I moved to New York City to study fashion, I met and became friends with people not only ... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, s... MARIEL HEMINGWAY First of all, everybody's got a relative that wants to get into baseball. They all call me and that'... BILL DOWLING Live From New York TOM SHALES The hardest part for everyone will be to stay patient and understand that we are committed to buildi... GLEN SATHER
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The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense. JOSH RADNOR After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all '... JOSH RADNOR It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is n... JOSH RADNOR My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare. JOSH RADNOR I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems. JOSH RADNOR There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They fo... JOSH RADNOR We are so vocal about what we hate. JOSH RADNOR And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant,... JOSH RADNOR Time off from the news is always something I welcome. JOSH RADNOR I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dro... JOSH RADNOR I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. 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JOSH BILLINGS If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectac... JOSH BILLINGS Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he m... JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. JOSH BILLINGS A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. JOSH BILLINGS Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethe... JOSH BILLINGS Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to... JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so. JOSH BILLINGS Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool. 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JOSH BILLINGS Poverty is the step-mother of genius. JOSH BILLINGS Remember the poor, it costs nothing. JOSH BILLINGS I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. JOSH BILLINGS Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. JOSH BILLINGS A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. JOSH BILLINGS Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing. JOSH BILLINGS About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgme... JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing til... JOSH BILLINGS If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy ... JOSH BILLINGS To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself. JOSH BILLINGS When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro... 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