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“In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working on and then they get sent out to the agents and stuff like that. It's difficult to find projects, sometimes, unless your agent or manager is submitting you for those specific projects.”

Sometimes Bigs Together Stuff Difficult Acting Cities Directors Projects Agents Managers Casting Breakdown Casting Directors

Author:Bostin Christopher

“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.”

Different Country Grows Cities Growing Up Groups Economic Grew Type Lucky Grew Up Neighborhood Diverse Ethnic Groups Different Types Of Music Economic Status

Author:Mike Posner

“The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.”

People Heart Would Be Young Answers Cities Impossible Building Access Practicals Giants Roof Cables

Author:Philippe Petit

“I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.”

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Author:I. M. Pei

“Luxembourg was and still is today a crossroads, the place where Germany meets the rest of Europe. The country lost part of its territory to Belgium in the 1800s, and during World Wars I and II the German military overran it. Very few people have visited Luxembourg - when I went there and looked at it, I said, my God, it's built on a rock. And within the rock they had a castle, and within the city there's a network of tunnels so the residents could move around and defend themselves. That was of great interest to me.”

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Author:I. M. Pei

“People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest of the country. I'm really glad to have grown up in an environment where I actually was kind of a weirdo because I was obsessed with comedy and movies and stuff.”

People Kind Country Stuff Cities Environment Comedy New York Grew Goes On Grew Up Glad Obsessed Los Angeles New York City Weirdo

Author:Ed Helms

“Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.”

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Author:Glen Hansard

“My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.”

Writing Mean Problem Jobs Cities Stage New York Comedian New York City

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.”

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Author:Mabel Cheung

“I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.”

People Way Firsts War Home Wanted Film Turns Parent Cities Generations Modern Shadow Islands Hong Kong

Author:Mabel Cheung

“It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.”

Thinking Might Cities Crazy

Author:Billy Corgan

“I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.”

Enough Stories Cities Heard Grew Grew Up Riding Terrified Bike

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.”

Matter Cities Knowing Personality

Author:Anne Rice

“Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.”

Ifs Littles Political Actors Cities Safety Movie Lighting Epiphany Woody

Author:Gene Wilder

“Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.”

People Should Ends Country Cities Violence Innocent Knives Elsewhere Attacking Jerusalem Siege Under Siege

Author:John F. Kerry

“My favorite place in the whole world is the city of Paris. to me, Paris stands at the frontier of every major category of travel - in food, art, theater, history, in so many different areas that I simply don't get tired of it.”

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Author:Arthur Frommer

“I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.”

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Author:Arthur Frommer

“Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.”

Thinking Bigs Purpose Culture Cities Built Appeals Bores Tourism Possessing Dubai

Author:Arthur Frommer

“My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.”

People Should Trying Kind Different Desire Games Poor Levels Cities Rich Desperate Surviving Different Levels

Author:Ai Weiwei

“New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“I'm obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries and you see that there is no mix. When you get back to the city, it's such an exciting place.”

Different Country Cities New York Exciting Treasure Obsessed Remarkable Get Back Different Countries

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.”

“New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.”

Thinking Art Stills Cities New York Competition New York City

Author:Takashi Murakami

“I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.”

Thinking Years Firsts Different Cities Half Trouble New York

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I do, but I don't like doing that. I would do it out of hate or anger. I would do it because some- one was pushing my buttons, but really I don't want to break my back in some European city while everyone else is drinking espresso. I only do it because someone refused to pay for the shipping, or something like that. I don't want to let a whole city of people down.”

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Author:Josh Smith

“To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.”

People Want Feels Made Cities Distasteful

Author:Danny Brown

“I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.”

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Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Littles Games Bits Sin Rooms Cities Months Little Bit Come Up Sean Sin City

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.”

Want Use Bigs Goal My Own Cities Streets New York Design Balls Tennis New York City Walkers Tennis Balls

Author:Abbey Curran

“Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.”

People Different Country Cities London Weekend Aristocratic Posh

Author:Damien Hirst

“One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it.”

People Needs May Reason Moving Desire Natural Cities Missing Conscious Rhythm Unconscious Trends Moving Out Missing It

Author:Shakti Gawain

“Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat the food.”

People Knows Order Culture Cities Representatives

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities I've visited, like Madrid, Rome and London, have a lot of similarities and "New York" elements while ... having their own flavor.”

Seems Cities New York Elements Majors International London Rome Flavor Upbringing Manhattan Similarity Madrid

Author:Bobby Flay

“I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.”

Energy Cities Streets Thailand Bangkok

Author:Bobby Flay

“If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.”

People Ifs Age Grows Cities Growing Up Violence Dying Car Cancer Old Age Bullets Wrecks Suburbs People Dying Car Wreck

Author:Suge Knight

“There's always - somehow a red carpet everywhere. And I think that, you know, it's a fantasyland out here, you know. It's beautiful. It's sunny all the time. You know, there are beautiful people everywhere because you're not allowed to cross the Los Angeles city lines unless you're beautiful or skinny - joking kind of.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Beautiful Lines Cities Red Crosses Los Angeles Carpet Skinny Sunny Red Carpet Beautiful People You Re Beautiful

Author:Debra Messing

“Not I, but the city teaches.”

Cities Teach

Author:Socrates

“But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.”

Nations Social Bits Cities Company Car Changed Building Shapes Organization Structure Elevators Social Structure

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.”

Kind Mean Different Sleep Cities Silence Morning Doubt Forests All Kinds Emptiness Different Things Rainstorms

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.”

Home Cities Losing Penalties American Cities

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.”

Thinking World States Cities Streets Stones Rebel Cities In The World Leviathan

Book:Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Source: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

“The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.”

Cities Civilization Benefits Tests Drawing

Book:The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

“Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.”

Purpose Cities Streets Limits Host Merchants Swarms Solicitors

Author:Charles Fourier

“With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.”

“...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their water supply comes from hundreds of miles away and any interruption of that, or food, or power for any period of time, you're going to have riots in the streets. Our society is so fragile, so dependent on the interworking of things to provide us with goods and services, that you don't need nuclear warfare to fragment us anymore than the Romans needed it to cause their eventual downfall.”

“Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the frailty in the failures in the flaws. Maybe what I tried to get rid of is the goodest part of me. Think Passion. Think Age. Think Round. Maybe good is about developing the capacity to live fully inside everything. Our body is our country, the only city, the only village, the only every we will ever know.”

Thinking Knows Country Body Age Passion Cities Capacity Rounds Be Good Our Country Mess Developing Flaws Village Frailty

Author:Eve Ensler

“On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.”

Knows Men Care Jobs Faces Young Cities Behinds Grace Middle Management Evening Wheels Bus Secretary Elderly Files Tense Clerks Middle Management

Book:The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

“At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.”

“I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.”

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Author:David Hockney

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