New York Quotes
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What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.
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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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'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
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I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.
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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 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, they like winners. They don't like second place.
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New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.
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It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York!
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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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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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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.
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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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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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Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.
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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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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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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.
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.
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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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I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.
