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“I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.”

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Author:Lorene Scafaria

“It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.”

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Author:Christine Taylor

“I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.”

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Author:Kristen Wiig

“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.”

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Author:Dylan Thomas

“My dream would be to be on a show that shoots in New York, because I live here, and then I could walk to work.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.”

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Author:Diego Della Valle

“My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'”

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Author:Chris Hayes

“In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent - or confronting any obstacle - that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.”

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Author:Rachel

“You can try to change New York, but it's like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up, there's nothing you can do.”

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Author:LIZ

“I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star, I didn’t know anybody, I wanted to dance, I wanted to sing, I wanted to do all those things, I wanted to make people happy, I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.”

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

“I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.”

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Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“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.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The Last Five Years. It's amazing how things come full-circle and how the community (once you hang around it long enough) grows smaller and smaller as it grows. Sharing the stage with these people is more than a dream come true it's so special. They're so warm and giving and offer the best advice. Sherie is very nice and maternal and nurturing.”

“This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.”

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Author:Malachy McCourt

“My daughter wrote a book. She is a New York Times Bestselling Author. Fabulous. Couldn't be more proud. She also has no health insurance. A 401 K? Dream on! My daughter left her stable corporate job to be a writer without dental benefits or a savings account, a.k.a. my worst nightmare.”

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Author:Kate Siegel

“[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."”

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Author:Dick Wolf