Edmund White Quotes
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
Edmund White
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
Lana Del Rey
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
Jack Adams
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We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
Harlan Coben
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
Edmund White
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
Ed Koch
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
Sally Ride
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When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I'll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there's four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product.
Zoe Foster Blake
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It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
Lewis Carroll
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
Edmund White
