Quotes about new-york
new-york giving-up people
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction. Ben Stiller
new-york fun flirting
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.
new-york wall civilization
I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization. Barry Corbin
new-york people france
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
new-york people breakfast-at-tiffanys
And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors. Audrey Hepburn
new-york heterosexuality-is years
I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . . Audre Lorde
new-york circles feminist
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
new-york flavor-of-the-month months
In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life. Athol Fugard
new-york popcorn born
Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York. Arthur Rock
new-york journalist gifted
David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
new-york buying news
You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.
new-york fun spring
My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen. Derek Hough
new-york believe cities
I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower. Derek Jeter
new-york unnecessary distraction
I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
new-york men games
I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge.
new-york trying difficult
I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.
new-york yelling taxi-cabs
If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them, Denis O'Hare
new-york band expensive
It's very expensive to bring a band to New York. Dee Dee Ramone
new-york california these-days
I like California a lot more than New York these days.
new-york thinking cities
Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing. Diego Klattenhoff
new-york holiday nightmare
To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate. Dick Cavett
new-york romance enough
I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually. Diana Gabaldon
new-york block eight
The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again. Ed Sullivan
new-york real editing
Going into editing when I got to New York was part of that. I guess I just kind of wanted to know as much as possible. But I have a real love of the whole process, from start to finish. So right now, I fit into the acting part of the process, but I wouldn't rule anything out. I'm enamored with how the whole thing works. Ed Helms
new-york thinking cities
When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
new-york years kind
I lived in New York for 10 years, I loved it, I never second-guessed it. There were definitely times when I thought, "I will never leave this place." And I kind of got into that center-of-the-universe mindset.
new-york night thinking
I worked as an assistant editor, actually, for a few years. That was right when I was just starting to get out at night and do a lot of stand-up, improv, and sketch work in New York. It really is invaluable. I think it pounded into me an awareness of what an editor wants and needs, in terms of clarity of a moment, where and when to start and stop a line.
new-york safe-haven thinking
...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven. Ed Koch
new-york law knives
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
new-york cities people
I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
new-york aqua cities
Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
new-york mean thinking
I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so many people's lives, honestly. I was thinking about all the thousands of people that live in Nashville, like myself, that there's no reason a guy from New York would end up down there if it wasn't for the sound of Earl Scruggs' banjo coming over the airwaves and just changing my life. Earl Scruggs
new-york writing two
I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London. Eliza Coupe