“Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.” ActorsNew YorkBrotherBecomingMovedMy BrotherEngineers Author:Anthony Mackie
“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.” SeemsCitiesFiguresNew YorkBecomingLimitsGratefulTrafficChaotic Author:Patti LuPone
“I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.” WorldWellsMadeStatesMovingFormRealizingUnitedUnited StatesPlayerNew YorkBecomingMusicianJazzNotionAfrican AmericanRanTerritoryLunchOld FashionedHornsJazz MusicLinearDiscardedGrooveJazz MusicianAmerican MusicAfrican American MusicFree Jazz Author:Joe Sample
“I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.” JobsPlansNew YorkBecomingModelsWindowStoresPretendingDeliberate Author:Geena Davis
“Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.” TwoStatesDreamRunningPresidentUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkBecomingHusbandOfficeBillsIntentionClintonDisappointedSenatorsJuniorsCrushedImpeachmentRunning For Office Author:David Letterman
“I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.” WayIdeasStoriesNew YorkBecomingHappeningsPhotographMy WayLandscapeCaliforniaCrucialFrontiersRunawayIconography Author:Justine Kurland
“... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.” ThinkingMadeDifferentPlayCharacterRealitySchoolFatherMy OwnFantasyNew YorkBecomingActivityEverydayPhotographNineDocumentsEveryday LifeCostumesDifferent CharactersSchool Plays Author:Mariko Mori
“I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.” PeopleWritingArtShowsLightFoundFunSoundDealsNew YorkStudentsBecomingPerformancesTerritory1960sHippieProvocativePerformance ArtNew TerritoryMultimedia Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa Fe, New Mexico, where people come down from New York and Boston and dress up as Indians. When I go to Santa Fe, I find real Indians living there, but they are not involved in the earth worship that the American environmentalists are so taken by. Many of these Indians are interested, rather, in becoming Evangelical Christians.” PeopleRealEarthChristianTakenLandNew YorkBecomingInvolvedWorshipDressesMexicoBostonSantaFascinationEvangelicalEnvironmentalistNew MexicoSanta Fe Author:Richard Rodriguez
“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