New York City Quotes - Page 2

• I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.

  Joan Didion

  New York, Mean, Cities

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Dec 22, 2014

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• I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Witty, New York, Real

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• New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

  Alistair Cooke

  New York, Cities In The World, Village

  Alistair Cooke (1951). “One man's America”, New York, Knopf

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• New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Insane, Vitality

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.159, New Directions Publishing

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• I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Cities, Nyc

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• This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, New York, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

  Steve Earle

  New York, Cities, People

  "Will Sheff Meets Steve Earle". Interview with Michael Tedder, www.spin.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I would love to do a television show in New York City.

  Ellen Barkin

  New York, Cities, Television

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• I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in shape after having a baby if I ran the New York City Marathon. I ran in it November 1986. I had just shot the 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, so I was in great shape.

  Kim Alexis

  Sports, Baby, New York

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• In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.

  Heath Ledger

  New York, Cities, Brave

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• I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Cities, Stories

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• '25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Home, Mean

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• I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the energy is just phenomenal. Great crews here. All the technicians, all the artists that work in this industry. I've just been very happy with the body that we've been able to do, especially those films we shot here in New York City.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Artist, Thinking

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• Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Cities, People

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• The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

  Billy Campbell

  New York, Real, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love New York City; I've got a gun.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, New York, Gun

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• I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  New York, Children, Cities

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• I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  New York, Home, Cities

  "Actor Jesse Eisenberg Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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• I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

  Spalding Gray

  Travel, New York, Moving

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• There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

  Steve Earle

  New York, Cities, Long

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• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  Vin Diesel

  Teacher, New York, Father

  "Vin Diesel Says ‘Fast Five’ is Part of a New ‘Furious’ Trilogy". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

  Vin Diesel

  New York, Years, Cities

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• It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

  Agatha Christie

  New York, Writing, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

  Graydon Carter

  New York, Cities, People

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Country, New York

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