New York Quotes — Page 23

AK

Actress, Singer

“My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.”

Thinking Running New York

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AB

Adrienne Bailon

Singer and Actress

“I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.”

Cities New York Humble

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Arlo Guthrie

Singer-Songwriter

“The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out!”

Men New York

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Audrey Hepburn

Actress, Humanitarian

“And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.”

People New York

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WB

William Beckett

Musician

“I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.”

New York Garden Squares

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Woody Allen

Director, Actor, Writer

“In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery - and it's weird, because the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But New York State says you have to. Well, finally, what happened was that my wife committed adultery for me. She's always been more mechanically inclined than I have.”

Law New York Divorce

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Woody Allen

Director, Actor, Writer

“I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same $18 million spent in Barcelona or Rome goes much further there.”

New York Rome Barcelona

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Woody Allen

Director, Actor, Writer

“When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York.”

Country New York Logical Ideas

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Woody Allen

Director, Actor, Writer

“He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.”

Cities New York Black And White

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VK

Vaclav Klaus

Politician, Economist

“Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.”

New York Spring August

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

“It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.”

Self New York Boston

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TC

Teju Cole

Author, Photographer

“It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.”

Book Character New York

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