New York Quotes
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
Ed Koch -
It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
Barry Jenkins
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There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.
Zack Greinke -
When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
J. K. Simmons -
I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
Vernon Wells -
For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
Kat Edmonson -
I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.
Zach Braff
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It's me! It's me! It's always me! [Darren when asked who smelled so good at the MTV Live interview in New York]
Darren Hayes Savage Garden -
I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
Natasha Lyonne -
Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
Waite Hoyt -
I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.
Jack McBrayer -
This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
Irina Shayk -
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen
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I love New York. Love it.
Taraji P. Henson -
I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
Mandy Patinkin -
I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything.
Kate Levering -
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
Adam Gopnik -
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
Famke Janssen -
There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
Karan Mahajan
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
Abbi Jacobson -
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
J. C. Chandor -
I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.
Laila Robins -
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
Manuel Puig