Quotes about new-york
new-york writing years
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing. Megan Abbott
new-york educational kids
but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it. Meg Rosoff
new-york children home
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts. Maya Angelou
new-york block feelings
The culture of New York is just impossible to replicate. Its such an incredible feeling to be walking on the streets of New York. You can literally find everything you need in a five block radius oftentimes. Max Schneider
new-york convenient
Everything is so convenient in New York, Matthew Modine
new-york winning cities
The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge. Mark Sanchez
new-york airports cities
I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc. Mark Skousen
new-york cities people
I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.
new-york skills trying
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. Marilyn vos Savant
new-york names tests
I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible. Mary Steenburgen
new-york dark broken
But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves. Patricia Highsmith
new-york california progress
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter
new-york nice years
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 tvs crosswords
I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV. Paula Cole
new-york play gigs
It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that. Paul Weller
new-york school years
Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius. Martin Sheen
new-york vision theatre
Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot. Martin Scorsese
new-york apartment felt
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
new-york downtown different
Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.
new-york thinking would-be
I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.
new-york powerful reading
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
new-york reflection america
She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America. Lee Child
new-york children book
Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.
new-york actors rehearsal
I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted. Philip Seymour Hoffman
new-york people doe
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out. Philip Roth
new-york important moral
It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority. Phil Angelides
new-york japan people
Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures. Pharrell Williams
new-york manhattan grew
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat. Peter Bart
new-york couple squares
From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town. Penn Jillette
new-york kids class
New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality. What we are giving poor kids now in early childhood is nothing like what we are giving middle-class kids in most places. Pedro Noguera
new-york italian who-i-am
I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.
new-york father thieves
My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
new-york gun boys
I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?' Mariska Hargitay