“I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.” ThinkingShowsAbleArtistStepsNew YorkWestSizeChinaGalleryAmazing ThingsElevatorsCrazinessWeirdness Author:Jean Pigozzi
“When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.” PeopleLooksAbleWifeNew YorkReadyScaredMy WifeFreezeLimelight Book:Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone
“When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.” WorldYearsAbleStrongFeltNew YorkCoupleMovedVery StrongTouring Author:Marketa Irglova
“Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.” YearsFirstsMadeDoneAbleNew YorkPaintingPaperSixMovedSevenI RealizedDestroyedDefault Author:David Salle
“I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.” AbleThreeCareersFourNew YorkDivineMy FavoriteGoing To WorkNew Yorkers Author:Ali MacGraw
“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.” TwoCareAbleJesusCitiesBoysWorryFailingNew YorkExampleMetsNew York CityApartmentPersonal RelationshipsNannies Author:Kim Alexis
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.” WritingArtTwoImportantBookAbleLastsArtistCultureLiteraturePoliticsLeftKnownNew YorkProduceMajorsConnectionsTownsUniversityAccessObsessedReviewsPublishingAmerican CultureManhattanPhilipVanguardBook ReviewJoe Mccarthy Book:God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays Source: God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays
“So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.” ThinkingYearsTwoDoneShowsAbleCultureThreeShareNew YorkFairsTheaterIncrediblesFortunateThree TimesFair ShareLive Theater Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.” WholeAbleDiesLeftCareersNew YorkHopefully Author:Hank Williams III
“If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.” IfsKnowsKindUseAbleCertainConditionsNew YorkRangeJust LiveFormalityFoilsInformality Author:David Adjaye
“Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.” AbleCitiesNew YorkProduceCreaturesPrivilegeLos AngelesWealthy Author:Vaginal Davis
“It's nice to be able to be whoever you want to be. I moved to New York for that reason. I think I am a very good example of how you really can do whatever you want to do without having any kind of prerequisite experience of any of kind of connection. None of my family members came from this world.” ThinkingWorldWantKindReasonAbleCan DoNiceNew YorkExampleThis WorldMembersMy FamilyConnectionsMovedVery GoodFamily MembersGood ExamplesPrerequisitesDo Whatever You Want Author:Jason Wu
“What's great about New York is that there are a lot of theater actors and actresses, who are trained actors, that they bring onto the show. They're so talented, in such a weird, quirky and ominous way. And it's great to be able to work with new faces, too.” WayShowsAbleFacesActorsNew YorkTheaterActressesQuirkyOminousActors And ActressesNew Faces Author:Natalie Zea
“I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.” WayStillsHardFeelingsAbleLife IsDealsCitiesDangerousNew YorkHarderWestRoughCoastBeing ThereHacksLife Is HardWest CoastI Love New York Author:Greta Gerwig
“And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York.” UseAbleInterestingCitiesSeeingNew YorkLooking Forward Author:Alison Pill
“Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce gullible White reviewers who know less about ghetto life than he. The New York Times has devoted more space to Price's tourist, ghetto writing than to any Black writer in history.” KnowsWritingBookAbleFilmBlackSpaceWhiteMillionsNew YorkDollarsFakeDevotedMillion DollarsTouristsNew York TimesOutlinesGhettoParagraphSeducingReviewersGullible Author:Ishmael Reed
“If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.” PeopleIfsAbleCitiesTalkingMissingNew YorkMeetingsCornersHanging Out Author:Grace Paley
“I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.” ThinkingFirstsEndsHappensAbleRememberUsedBrainWorryNew YorkSolitudeWindowPhonesCellsLengthShiftingCell PhoneTaxi Author:Dani Shapiro
“I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then I lived in Melbourne. Then I moved back to Gothenburg because the immigrant laws are strict for both Australia and the U.S., and I would have to marry someone to get into those countries. But I wouldn't really be able to get involved in a sham marriage without being able to tell anyone about it.” YearsCountryAbleLawFourNew YorkMonthsInvolvedMovedAustraliaImmigrantsStrictGet InvolvedSuitcasesMelbourne Author:Jens Lekman
“The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.” PeopleMayAbleYoungArtistCitiesImpossibleHappenedWorstSpecialNew YorkBecomingDoctorsCrisisNew York CityWorst ThingsHousingYoung ArtistsHousing Crisis Author:Juan Enriquez