Living In The City Quotes

• It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.

  Lynne Tillman

  New York, College, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

  Rupert Friend

  Cities, People, Different

  "Interview: Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut ‘Steve,’ Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.

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• There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

  Roger Zelazny

  Art, Mean, Civilization

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• For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Cities, Cherish, Countryside

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

  Laura Marling

  Cities, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

  Christopher Bollen

  Country, Loss, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

  Daphne Guinness

  Order, Cities, Ideas

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• The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Sleep, Cities, Problem

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• We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Stupid, Animal

  "Sebastião Salgado in Siberia" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Children, Cities, People

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• In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it in that it's the best job in the world, but you have to negotiate living in cities that don't always accommodate you.

  Randy Harrison

  Jobs, Blue, Cities

  "Randy Harrison's the new Emcee in "Cabaret"". Interview with Tony Bravo, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2016.

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• Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.

  Marina Warner

  Night, Class, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Home, Cities

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• I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

  Odette Annable

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Mean, Cat, Animal

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.

  John Frusciante

  Love You, Cities, People

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• In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of Nature.

  Louise Leakey

  Cities, People, Half

  "WATCH: Is The Human Race In Danger Of Becoming Extinct Soon?" by Louise Leakey, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2013.

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• I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

  Charles de Lint

  Book, Night, Cities

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• I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal.

  Lou Reed

  Cities, Drug, Age

  "Lou Reed v Lester Bangs: a classic interview from the vaults". www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.

  Adam Duritz

  Country, Couple, Believe

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• I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

  Jason Bateman

  Gay, Cities, People

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• Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

  Jonathan Raban

  Art, Real, Men

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