New York Quotes - Page 13

• When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when you want to get that publication in The New York Times or wherever? It encourages people to play right into it.

  Carl Hart

  Play, People, Black

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.

  Dani Shapiro

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

  Moby

  Drinking, Artist, Complaining

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

  Paul Auster

  Attachment, Cities, Special

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.

  Moby

  Hate, People, Hatred

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was either through TV, music, movies or hopping in and out when I did shows. You can't just get the US through being in Miami, LA and New York. Middle America is the place to understand real America.

  Dizzee Rascal

  Country, Real, America

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.

  Hal Holbrook

  Daughter, Leader, Slavery

  "Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

  Julian Schnabel

  Artist, Thinking, Difficult

  "New Again: Julian Schnabel". Interview with Carter Ratcliff, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 5, 2016.

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• It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Effort, Conscious, Moved

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding the subways of New York City, where I live.

  Andrea Davis Pinkney

  Notebook, Home, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I'm always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It's like hunting and gathering for me.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Song, Hunting, Cupcakes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"

  Biz Stone

  Art, Jobs, Moving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are a lot of sources of information out there, so why don't you curate for yourself a list, like a real timeline of information, like the New York Times, or JetBlue, or your friends, or this comedian, or this guy who pretends to be a cat, or whatever it is, whatever entertains you, whatever you find useful.

  Biz Stone

  Real, Cat, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.

  Eric Drooker

  Men, Covered Up, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• New York is such a special place. It's really intense for people because they live here when they're young. On top of the energy of the city there's a visceral experience a lot of people have because it's a time in their lives where they're just absorbing a lot. Things take on a significance that they might not otherwise.

  Meghan Daum

  Cities, People, Special

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.

  Laura Lippman

  Attitude, Past, Pieces

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I think I can work anywhere, but you don't get the same kind of inspiration everywhere. New York theater has become a big inspiration for me. I only started writing for the stage myself because I like to see the good, mostly off-Broadway plays in New York.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Cities, Climate, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle of nowhere on the internet inspired me to move to London, or New York and pursue a creative career.' It makes me quite emotional.

  Kesh

  Moving, Home, Emotional

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.

  Fred Melamed

  Baby, Fire, Islands

  "Fred Melamed on Casual, the Coens, and making Larry David laugh". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college.

  Porochista Khakpour

  College, Hands, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Moving, Artist, Waiting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.

  Debra Dean

  Fall, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.

  Karen Dawn

  Sunday, Animal, Years

  "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.

  Chad Harbach

  Nice, Ambition, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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