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“I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.”

Knows Should Stills School Asks New York Magazines Ask Me Editors Business School Receptionists

Author:Andrew Tobias

“I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.”

Knows Believe Dream Asks I Believe New York Dare I Believe In New Yorkers

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.”

Art School Moving Asks Study Teacher Advice New York Mark What You Love Best Teacher Good Art Art School

Author:Mark Kostabi

“To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.”

People Asks Party New York Hundred Hollywood Twenties Fifty Invites Cocktails Cocktail Parties

Author:Elsa Maxwell

“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.”

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Author:Lee Child

“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”

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Author:Cleveland Amory

“When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.”

Source: Southern ladies and gentlemen

“I love the impatience of New York... You ever had somebody not ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy's like, 'HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!' ...You know, like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you're wasting HIS time.”

Knows Funny Guy Asks Comedy Streets New York Like You Walking Demand This Guy Horns Impatience Tunnels Holland Fax

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.”

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Author:John Waters

“I love women who are bosses and who don't constantly worry about what their employees think of them. I love women who don't ask, "Is that OK?" after everything they say. I love when women are courageous in the face of unthinkable circumstances, like my mother when she was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Or like Gabrielle Giffords writing editorials for the New York Times about the cowardice of Congress regarding gun laws and using phrases like "mark my words" like she is Clint Eastwood. How many women say stuff like that?”

“We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys.”

People Ifs Trying Looks Hard Three Asks Hours Watches Seeing Fans New York College Basketball Theater Bunch Tunes College Basketball Live Theater

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."”

People Children I Can Two Sometimes Asks Stuff New York Planes Ask Me Vacation Short Notice

Author:Victoria Chang

“If you ask any driver about their first trip to New York, it's always crazy.”

Ifs Firsts Asks Crazy New York Drivers

Author:Daughn Gibson