New York Quotes
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
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In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.
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Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.
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I actually find it kind of lonely because you don't see your friends or family ever. I sort of fantasize about just hanging out in New York while I'm on tour.
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
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It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.
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I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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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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I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'
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In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
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I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.
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The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
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I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in the pink." Which sounded so Stephen King. He's doing well I think after his accident and all of that, years and years ago.
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
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It's a town you come to for a short time.
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New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.
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New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
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I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
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My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.
