Downtown Quotes

• For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Personality
  • Social
  • Farmers

• I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Careers
  • Exciting

• I started warming up at this place downtown for this guy and they asked me to be the headliner, ... From there, I practiced more, rocked the crowd, participated with the crowd and got notoriety.

  

  Dallas Michael John Albert Green Alexisonfire
  • Guy
  • Crowd
  • Asked

• A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Times
  • Cement
  • Downtown

• The traffic - that is what's hindering downtown Bluefield. There is no traffic. Again, we are just trying to get the traffic into the heart. Your downtown is your civic heart. If the heart stops beating - just like in your body - you are dead. Symbolically, that is what is happening in Bluefield.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Traffic

• For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Harlem

• Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Kids
  • House
  • Go

• You see everything, from downtown to uptown, all kinds of folks.

  

  Larry Taylor Canned Heat
  • Folks
  • Downtown
  • Uptown

• Ive been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. Im not a Wall Street lawyer, Im a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.

  

  Keith Rothfus
  • Lawyer
  • Stock
  • Tourists

• My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

  

  William Eggleston
  • School
  • Photography
  • Cameras

• The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

  

  William Petersen
  • Wife
  • Chicago
  • Downtown

• I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Experience

• In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Borders

• People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Downtown
  • Amenity

• Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Mother
  • Grandfather
  • Pointing

• All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • People
  • Morality
  • Homeless