New York Quotes
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
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.
Sam Endicott The Bravery
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When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.
Idina Menzel -
All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.
J. D. Souther -
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
Alistair Cooke -
In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.
Eli Manning -
I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.
Carlos Dengler Interpol
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I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.
Kate Christensen -
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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.
Cornelia Parker -
It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.
Eliot Spitzer -
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.
Alan Rickman -
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.
Kathy Bates
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The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.
Lorin Maazel -
College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.
Baratunde Thurston -
I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.
Aziz Ansari -
I don't want my music to stay New York, I want it to be everywhere.
AraabMuzik -
Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
Nan Goldin
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Somehow the vitality of New York state has been sapped.
Eliot Spitzer -
The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
JJ Feild -
I feel like everybody knows what is at stake. Everybody knows the importance of every game. We had a good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out because it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team.
Allen Iverson -
The name is also connected with living in New York in this really weird time. People are constantly waiting for something bad to happen. I wrote these songs and formed this band to make sure I didn't get overcome by that sense of fear. That's what this band is about -- standing tall and not being afraid.
Sam Endicott The Bravery