Whenever I left New York, the Twin Towers welcomed me back in. It was a symbol of my city - the most unique city in the world, so when I moved to Virginia and later to Maryland, it meant even more.
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Related In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and l... ERNST MAYR I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this bei... SHARON KAY PENMAN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were j... ANITA WEISS When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there ... CHRIS BOHJALIAN Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite Ameri... HENRY ROLLINS I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsig... CASEY NEISTAT I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going t... DREAMA WALKER Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. M... ALEKSA PALLADINO I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on... DASCHA POLANCO I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world. GABRIEL MACHT I'd lived in Arizona, and I loved Arizona. But I had a husband I was separated from, and a baby to s... LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY When I started writing 'Sex and the City,' I was writing about women I knew in New York who were in ... CANDACE BUSHNELL Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne... H. G. BISSINGER In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York ... ROBERT GOTTLIEB Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed lik... STEPHANIE CLIFFORD New York is my favorite city in the world. LIAM GALLAGHER I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City. ANDREJ PEJIC I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off t... SPALDING GRAY I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New Yor... ALEKSA PALLADINO I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the sou... DANIEL GILLIES The Twin Towers stood out like an enormous number 11 looming over New York City, a familiar icon cou... REBECCA MCNUTT 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 emceed in metro Detroit throughout college, and even when I moved to New York, I would actually fl... JAMES WOLK Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest bu... MICHAEL MANDELBAUM When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. DIANE LANE The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at ... MICHAEL RAPAPORT My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? HENRY YOUNGMAN I was born in Seoul, South Korea; then I moved to New York City at the age of seventeen. In New York... SUNG JIN PARK Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York... 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 So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewh... KURT VONNEGUT It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York! BOB WISE When I was a child growing up in the city, you never saw hawks. It's now quite common to see large b... ADRIAN BENEPE I was born and raised in New York City so that was very personal. JOSH LAWSON When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug. CARINE ROITFELD My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ... JOE LHOTA In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union,... JOE LHOTA I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a you... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not ev... JOHN GUARE I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting... UZO ADUBA I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit... ABIGAIL BRESLIN I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Em... AVI Thank you so much for including me in this year's It List. I couldn't believe it when I found out! I... DAKOTA FANNING It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective stor... AGATHA CHRISTIE Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America ha... CHARLES B. RANGEL When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super dep... GALLANT Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, i... CHANTAL AKERMAN I arrived in New York City on a ship the day before Thanksgiving. It was freezing cold. FELIX SILLA New York is the greatest city in the world. ANNA WOOD I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and h... E. L. KONIGSBURG 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... ROBERT DE NIRO It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family... ANDREW CHERNG I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivo... PRABAL GURUNG Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m... DAVID CASSIDY The transition was good compared to New York because the inner city schools were so jam-packed. I fe... DEMETRIUS PORTER My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York ... PHILIP MORRISON However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. JOHN GUARE I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City. COLUM MCCANN I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it ... ROGER MARIS When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I co... RUDY GIULIANI I would love to study musical theater in a big city. New York University and the Boston Conservatory... DEVON WILLIAMS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you hav... DANIEL HUMM We want to keep going. I lived in New York City for awhile, and my idea is to surround New York City... DAVE MORRIS When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It w... DAPHNE ZUNIGA I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in t... DAVID LACHAPELLE I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have ... CASEY NEISTAT I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightl... REGINA HALL These days, real estate is the hottest game to get into, and Tycoon City: New York offers everyone a... BILL CARROLL Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesth... DREE HEMINGWAY I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving ... BRUCE FEIRSTEIN Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would neve... BRUNO TONIOLI I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, accord... SAMUEL R. DELANY I know there are a lot of country music fans in New York City but the problem with doing a show in N... TRACE ADKINS I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa... VICTOR MITCHELL I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher... PATRICK WHITE When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the docto... ROBERT JAY LIFTON Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. f... DAVID HARSANYI Little did I know when I shook my mop out of the second-story window of a Greenwich Village brownsto... SAN ANTONIO Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Cent... MARILYN VOS SAVANT In New York City we need police officers to protect even the dead. WILLIAM J. DEAN So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put... GUNTHER SCHULLER I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a ... ALICIA WITT Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my deg... RUTH BADER GINSBURG New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't ... TERRI WINDLING In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also becaus... ALICIA WITT New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably... ELLIE KEMPER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s... KAREN BENDER When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise... RUDY GIULIANI I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the P... ZOE MCLELLAN Julius Caesar built that bridge over the Rhine in 10 days. Ten days! They've been trying to fix the ... PETER WELLER I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of ... JON STEWART I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world a... M. J. ROSE When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or ... DAVE GIBBONS I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in shape a... KIM ALEXIS Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my... DIXIE CARTER
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MONICA BELLUCCI Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he tal... MONICA CROWLEY I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whate... MONICA LEWINSKY Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and... MONICA LEWINSKY I used to do kickboxing, because I liked the cute outfits. MONICA KEENA I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first chil... MONICA BELLUCCI Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair... MONICA RAYMUND We all need illusions. That's why we love movies. MONICA BELLUCCI And she told me that I should put it in a safe deposit box because it could be evidence one day, MONICA LEWINSKY So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So... MONICA LEWINSKY I don't stress myself about my looks. I love to laugh. I like being able to lead an interesting ... MONICA BELLUCCI These basket sleeves are made from recycled milk jugs. But they are made to slip down over an existi... MONICA PROCAR It was very clear to me that it was from previous conversations I had with Linda Tripp, MONICA LEWINSKY Columbia is more outside-oriented and their point guard, [Griffith], is a great outside shooter, and... MONICA NALTNER The real estate industry has changed significantly in just the past decade. The Internet has become ... MONICA HODGES Sometimes you have to stand alone, just to make sure you still can. MONICA MURPHY It's not just the top, where the towers once stood. It's above and below ground, six stories down, w... MONICA IKEN Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that we... 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