Peter Jurasik Quotes
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
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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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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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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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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
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Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
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New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
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When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.
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Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
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I would like to do more independent films.
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I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.
