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• You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  News, Buying, Judgment

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• New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying. Only dreamers come to New York. As a matter of course, few people have control of their lives. You live at the whim of your boss, your landlord, your grocer, the stranger, the judge, the bus driver, the mayor who won't let you smoke. On the other hand, you live at the whim of your whims, and that is the most exciting thing there is.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Lying, Light, Hands

  Charlie LeDuff (2004). “Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts”, p.24, Penguin

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• I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.

  Emily Deschanel

  Jobs, Father, Acting

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• New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

  Griffin Dunne

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Narcissism, Kind, Guilty

  "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

  Audrey Tautou

  People, France, Polite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

  Frank Miller

  Writing, Men, Tights

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

  Robert Wyatt

  Bebop, Revolution, Jazz

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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  The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.

  William Halsey

  Country, Military, Marine

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• A lot of people think that it was about Biggie on the East Coast and 2Pac on the West Coast. It wasn't like that. Big ran New York. 2Pac ran America.

  Cormega

  Thinking, America, People

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• I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a 70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

  Peter York

  Downtown, Cash, Location

  "An English individualist in New York" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2010.

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• Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Hands, Cities, Paper

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• We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

  Michael Baden

  States, Investigation, County

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• There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

  Don Herold

  Eight, People, Millions

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• Chicago - it's a mini-New York.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Chicago

  "Actress dreams of Rome — and eating at Sonic". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

  Manohla Dargis

  Cute, Smart, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.

  Jamie Bell

  People, Rooftops, Bunch

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities, People, Jersey

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• You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  America, Knows, Can Do

  Edward Rutherfurd (2010). “New York”, p.418, Random House

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• New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.

  Jay-Z

  Wall, Writing, Thinking

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.108, Random House Group

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• i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York.

  Maureen Johnson

  Crush, Play, Cities

  Maureen Johnson (2009). “13 Little Blue Envelopes”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Home, Pride, College

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• Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Cities, Lgbt

  "Lady Gaga's early career analyzed in New York profile" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 29, 2010.

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• Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

  Holland Cotter

  Fabulous, Bones, Natural

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• Everything is so convenient in New York.

  Matthew Modine

  Convenient

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