Danny Boyle Quotes
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.
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I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.
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I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.
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I grew up just outside New York City in a very white town. In seventh grade, I got called Macy Gray. It really affected me, so I got a weave and wore my hair straight.
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With 'City of Black & White,' I wanted a record that would make you feel good, that would sort of take you up in its hand and sweep you along.
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Doing 40-minute track sessions is easy money compared to what we were doing on the Tour. What you used to think was hard now feels like a walk in the park.
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In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.
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Real Madrid has always been happy with him and we thank him for what he has done here. We wish him all the luck in the future. He asked to leave because this is World Cup year and here he wasn't always going to play. We didn't want to loan him out and only when a big offer arrived did we accept his transfer.
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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.