Wyatt Cenac Quotes
I could go to L.A. for limited amounts of time, but I like New York too much. I like seasons. I like fall.
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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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.
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When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
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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 missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.
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I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.
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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 arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home for brief periods and took off again. So the population was very fluid, and suddenly it was as if the continent tilted west. The whole population slid west. It took 10 years for America to coalesce into a new culture. And the new culture happened in San Francisco, not New York.
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There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
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I could go to L.A. for limited amounts of time, but I like New York too much. I like seasons. I like fall.
