“The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.” LostLosesNew YorkMy FriendsConnectionsHardestBelongingHardest ThingDivorcedPrivate LifeSony Author:Howard Stringer
“I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.” SaidNew YorkMy FriendsPerformingCall MeThey SaidTheatricalGaga Author:Lady Gaga
“I always sort of talk about - to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very simple. I've found it most simple here in New York. You know, it's basically I have a, in a way, a 9-to-5 job, you know? I do eight shows a week. I live in New York City. I get to walk everywhere, and you know, just be one of the people of the city. And it's actually wonderful.” PeopleKnowsWayShowsJobsFoundSimpleWalksCitiesWonderfulWeekNew YorkMy FriendsEightNew York City Author:Bradley Cooper
“When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.” FilmStudyNew YorkMy FriendsDoctorsScriptsFascinatedFilmmakingCorrections Author:Arjun Rampal
“I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked at me, disgusted, and said, 'No, you can't, but you can roll it in glitter'. He's a lovely guy but I wouldn't want to go to a craft fair with him” WantSaidUsedGuyTalkingNew YorkExpressionMy FriendsFairsYesterdayLovelyCraftsPolishGlitterDisgustedTurds Author:Steve Williams
“I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.” LeftMissingNew YorkMy FriendsBiggerSeattleReally Sad Author:Rachel Trachtenburg
“When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.” MenWantedYoungInfluenceNew YorkMy FriendsEnormousCinemaYoung ManFilmmakerFrench Cinema Author:Woody Allen
“The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was in a retirement home and that she had had a friend for 40 years that was a Japanese gardener. This person had been very important in my friend's upbringing.” YearsPersonsSaidImportantBookIdeasHomeMotherTalkingStreetsNew YorkLoversWalkingConversationMy FriendsRetirementGardenerUpbringingRetirement Homes Author:Isabel Allende
“I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L.A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town".” YearsLittlesDifferentBeautifulSpaceSeeingNew YorkStrangePeriodsMy FriendsTownsMovedEightLandscapeAdjustmentDifferent Relationships Author:Emma Stone
“I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.” PeopleThinkingSaidHelpingRunningLastsRecordsNew YorkMy FriendsInvestmentSouthFinalsCome UpFinanceMinistersRegimesSouth AfricaNailsSeniorPropositionsSanctionsApartheidCoffinsTreasuryVancouverCommercial Banks Author:Bob Hawke
“I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay.” New YorkGayMy FriendsClubsHanging Out Author:Moby
“Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.” AttitudeOpinionNew YorkMy FriendsLos AngelesElsewhereTrafficMalls Author:Moby
“I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.” AmericaParentBornMy OwnNew YorkMy FriendsEuropeIncludingImmigrants Author:Christopher Walken
“Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.” PeopleAnswersGoneNew YorkMy FriendsRestaurantsSushiQueries Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.” KindNew YorkTerribleMy FriendsComplainingChefTerrible ThingsMafiaGood FoodI'm BackRussian Mafia Author:Anthony Bourdain