Art Tatum Quotes
Tell the New York cats to look out. Here comes Tatum! I mean every living tub with the exception of Fats Waller and Willie the Lion
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
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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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Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
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We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
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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.
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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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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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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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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 spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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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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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
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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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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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Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.
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I first thought about doing a project about Anna Wintour and 'Vogue' when I read an article in 'New York Magazine' about the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Ball, the annual fundraising gala that Anna oversees. It created such a fascinating portrait that I couldn't help but be compelled.
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It's something I am confident about. It gives me an adrenaline rush - who wouldn't want want to wear beautiful clothes and jewellery and look wonderful - it's a dream job for many.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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Tell the New York cats to look out. Here comes Tatum! I mean every living tub with the exception of Fats Waller and Willie the Lion
