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“New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.”

Seems Cities New York Jazz Rhythm Animated

“it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.”

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“New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.”

World Way Hours Cities Morning Streets New York Lonely Drinking Seven Coffee Nine Crossings Bagels Crossing The Street

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“You must never be afraid in New York City, because then you will call bad stuff to you and you will not like it there.”

Stuff Cities New York New York City Bad Stuff

Book:Roseanne: my life as a woman

Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman

“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.”

Cities New York Mere Notion

Author:Joan Didion

“I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .”

America Moving Cities New York Ready Travel Europe Moved Islands New York City Coast

Author:Spalding Gray

“I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.”

Way Years Play Character Home Cities New York Strikes New York City Amazed Chekhov

Author:Neil Simon

“Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.”

Love Is Cities New York Lows Innocent Pity Paris New York City Archer

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.”

Art Cities Support Streets New York Art Is Impact Architecture Scales Aesthetic Sunlight Worthless Infrastructure Circulation Support Systems

Book:The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style

Source: The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style

“[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.”

Has Beens Hours Cities Half New York Sitting Coffee Cups Sat Shops New York City Lap Drank Lipstick Coffee Cup Gum Oblivious Coffee Shop Napkins

Author:Laura Kightlinger

“In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.”

People Thinking Cities Doors Fronts New York Areas New York City Taxi Cab Front Doors Great Outdoors Taxi Cabs

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.”

Art Past Hours Challenges Cities Growing New York Accomplishment Relief Throwing Growing Old Throwing Away

Book:The Practice of Everyday Life

Source: The Practice of Everyday Life

“Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.”

May Two Ends Water Cities Four Sea Feet Century New York Higher Climate Climate Change Storm Rising New York City Coastal

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.”

World Cities Streets New York New York City Above And Below

Book:But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

Source: But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

“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.”

Giving Writing Years Heart Children Book Soul Passion Asks Born Cities Novel New York Our Children Response Your Children New York City Exquisite

Author:Lee Child

“Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.”

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Author:Joseph Pisani

“As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.”

People Thinking Trying Helping Cities New York Band Adults New York City Vegan Good Friend Homeless Making A Living Homeless People

Author:Rachel Trachtenburg

“[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.”

Want Littles Home Views Cities New York Strange Dating Point Of View New York City Items Rummage Sales

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.”

People Thinking Sleep Cities Nice New York Eating Sunshine Squares Broadway Nighttime Sushi Never Sleep Nightlife Times Square

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist feels local and small. Social media feels now.”

World Feels States Artist Social Cities Media New York Scene Social Media Locals Just One New York City Devoted Nyc

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.”

People Believe Ideas Care Artist Culture I Believe Levels Rooms Cities Streets New York Crowds I Believe In Access New York City Fabric I Care Who Cares Harbors Populist Diffusion

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.”

Doe Hard Poor Cities New York Identity Cost Elsewhere Affluence Over The Top

Author:Anna Quindlen

“[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say that the land was the fairest in the world.”

World Should America Left Cities Land New York Fairs Population Proportion New York City

Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans

“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”

Ifs Reality Imagination Space Secret Cities Cutting New York Poet Creating Tradition Myth Disappear London Paris Rome Sail Floats Moscow Leningrad

Author:Nina Berberova

“[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.”

Ifs Water Cities New York Rose Invisible Visible Temples Tall Gothic Detached

Author:Nina Berberova

“New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs.”

Ifs Hands Left Pleasure Cities New York Tables New York City Salt Flavor Bangs Bucks Spices Loaded Waiter Indigestion Cholesterol Appetizers

Author:Leonore Fleischer

“New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.”

Humans Mean Human Beings Cities New York Constant Evolve New York City Organisms Fluctuation Living Organisms

Author:Timothy Levitch

“I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.”

Thinking Cities New York Theater Musical New York City Musical Theater Theater Family

Author:Jane Krakowski

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Shows Universe Cities Dangerous New York Mindset Los Angeles New York City Show Business Center Of The Universe

Author:Ed Helms

“My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.”

Want Cities Environment Sea New York Shopping

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.”

Running Cities New York New York City Cop Subway

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.”

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Author:Patti LuPone

“New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.”

Seems Cities Figures New York Becoming Limits Grateful Traffic Chaotic

Author:Patti LuPone

“Anyway, a spokesman for Barack Obama says the prisoners that are released from Guantanamo will either be sent back to their home countries or enter the New York City cab driver training program.”

Country Home Cities New York Training Program Barack Drivers Prisoner New York City Cab Guantanamo Home Country Training Programs Cab Drivers

Author:Jay Leno

“If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I'm never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.”

Ifs Cities New York Building Activity Areas South London Theatre Bored Pace Gallery Breathtaking Time Of Day Skylines

Author:Robert Pattinson

“People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.”

People Said Cities New York Civilization California Civilized New York City Fiji

Author:Raymond Burr

“Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.”

“I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.”

Artist Girl Cities New York Married Moved France Paris Not Sure New York City Runaway Setups

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.”

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Author:Kim Alexis

“Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.”

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Author:James Dobson

“I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.”

Cities Four New York Championship Yankees Mayors Dynasty

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.”

Knows Has Beens Lasts Young Belief Cities Progress New York Lifetime New York City

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.”

“Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'”

Ifs Cities New York New York City Ebola

Author:Bill Maher

“People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.”

People Found Parent Cities Cases Growing Up Growing Dog New York Assuming New York City

Author:Jill Abramson

“Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.”

Cities New York Fantastic New York City Exes Mundane

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.”

Knows Mean Cities New York Suicide Busy Do You Know New York City Signals

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.”

Cities Growing Up Growing New York Daughter Tables Immigrants New York City Menus

Author:Grace Meng

“I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.”

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Author:Leonard Susskind

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