New Yorkers Quotes - Page 7

• New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Art, Thinking, All The Best

  "Wolfgang Puck: 'Cooking is like painting'". Interview with Paul Willis, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.

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• How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

  Leonard Slatkin

  Hollywood, Strings, Quartets

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• A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

  R. L. Stine

  Morning, Real, Sound

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

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• I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

  Chris Ware

  Ideas, Superhero, Adults

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• For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  New York, Feelings, Shadow

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• I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.

  Dylan Walsh

  New York, East, Kind

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• If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Names

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.

  Kara Lindsay

  Summer, New York, Yoga

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• New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest.

  Janet McTeer

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

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• Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

  Christine Lavin

  Feelings, Shells, Shocked

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• I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Nice, Years

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• The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

  Douglas Adams

  Character, Numbers, Common Sense

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

  Robert Orben

  Cities, Contact, Ifs

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• New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

  Brooks Atkinson

  New York, Rain, Assuming

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation

  Edmund Wilson

  Real, Europe, Cities

  Edmund Wilson (1966). “Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964”, Vintage

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• It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Morality, Difficult

  Alan M. Dershowitz (1983). “The Best Defense”, Vintage

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• We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

  William Shawn

  Want, Like You, Courtesy

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• There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.

  David Letterman

  Thanksgiving, New York, Turkeys

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• Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

  Robert Moses

  New York, Believe, Tired

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• I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, New York, Believe

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• Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Changed, Exaggeration, Publication

  "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.

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• I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like that while I'm writing. But I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Growing Up, Writing

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class.

  Randall Jarrell

  Class, Magazines, Irony

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Town Mouse, Country Mouse" (p. 70), 1980.

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• A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Doctors, Years

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• There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Careers, Virginia

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