“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.” KnowsShouldStillsSchoolAsksNew YorkMagazinesAsk MeEditorsBusiness SchoolReceptionists Author:Andrew Tobias
“But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.” IfsI CanEnoughUseHellSuccessfulNew YorkCriticsMagazinesHalfway Author:Burt Reynolds
“I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.” YearsHalfNew YorkMovedMagazinesBrownAuditions Author:David Walton
“One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.” MediaNew YorkMagazinesJournalismSundayBoresNew York TimesCardinalsChoresPenanceCardinal Rules Author:Martin Nolan
“[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.” WorldAgeOrderFoundHouseRecordsNew YorkHorseStoresLocalsMagazinesCopiesPunkColumbiaRecord Stores Author:Michael Stipe
“I was the only guy who is referred to as Mr. Smith in the New York Times and in the same week as Sexy Rexy in some teen magazine.” GuyWeekNew YorkSexyMagazinesNew York Times Author:Rex Smith
“I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories editor for Mademoiselle Magazine. While working at Mademoiselle I noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags, so I decided to create my own.” SchoolMy OwnCitiesFashionNew YorkDecidedMagazinesEditorsSensibleAccessoriesKansasStylishHandbagsKansas City Author:Kate Spade
“I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.” BookChristianReadingCitiesStreetsSpecialNew YorkWallMagazinesPlusNew York CityJournalNew YorkersSkepticResidentsWall Street Journal Author:Timothy Keller
“When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.” Would BeKidsFashionNew YorkMovedInspiredMagazinesInterviews80sPersonaSan DiegoFashion Magazines Author:RuPaul
“I live in New York now and most of magazines have turned more towards reality stars. So, really I think that's great because it's turned towards people who want it rather than... So, I think it's actually kind of imploding in on itself a little bit.” PeopleThinkingWantKindLittlesRealityStarsBitsNew YorkLittle BitMagazines Author:Kirsten Dunst
“Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.” WayLittlesFeelingsRocksNew YorkCriticsMagazinesTabooNew York TimesNew Yorkers Author:James Purdy
“We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet." We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.” PeopleNeedsUseTodayAmericaBeautifulSocialHurtWealthAnimalFiveFourShareMediaNew YorkMessagesOkaySocial MediaBillionsCampaignsInnocentMagazinesOur SocietyPrintDestroyingAdsContinentsElephantsAsiaNew York TimesRobbingBraceletNot Okay Author:Patrick Bergin
“Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.” YearsFirstsWellsLongMadeIdeasTermSecretHalfKnownIssuesFiveFourNiceInfluenceNew YorkMonthsOffersDecidedMadDinnerMagazinesComicEditorsGood IdeasGuestsSensibilityLong LifeVery NiceLong Love Author:Al Yankovic
“It took a child. It took a child with a blood transfusion not only to wake me up, but to wake America up, basically. I mean, I read about his plight in a doctor's office in New York in a magazine. I was so outraged about it that I contacted the family. We became friends. I helped them move to another place in Indiana. And we became constant friends.” MeanChildrenAmericaMovingBloodNew YorkOfficeDoctorsConstantMagazinesIndianaPlightOutragedBlood Transfusion Author:Elton John
“I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.” PeopleFirstsSaidStatesUnitedEnemyUnited StatesNew YorkPositionMagazinesEstablishmentNew York TimesTime Magazine Author:Gore Vidal