New York Quotes
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
Kara Hayward -
Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people in New York would speak about some of the issues people were facing. At the time, 2006-ish, there were a number of big media campaigns to raise awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
Uzodinma Iweala
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Zubin Mehta -
I grew up in New York.
Yunjin Kim -
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
Lance Loud -
Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.
Umberto Eco -
I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
Laura San Giacomo -
That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
Daniel Boulud
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
Samuel Barber -
I've lived in New York for a really long time.
Famke Janssen -
I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
Questlove -
I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
J. R. Smith -
I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
Famke Janssen -
I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
Dan Fogler
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
Mahershala Ali -
If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.
J. K. Simmons -
I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
R. L. Stine -
Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
Vera Farmiga
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
Sara Willis -
I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?
Cara Buono -
Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.
Dakota Johnson