“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.” TryingActionWantedPainFeltActingStudyPlansNew YorkHeroNeededAction Heroes Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.” WellsSaidRealEnoughHelpingSkyNew YorkBuildingNeededMountainMouthsNo Friends Author:Nickolas Ashford
“I think if I lived in New York I would be really stressed out going out to a club and seeing a good DJ who's doing something on a similar level. I'm pretty critical of myself when it comes to the music. Maybe they're not doing as many samples or the samples aren't put together as specifically but it would stress me out to feel like I needed to be one upping someone. In Pittsburgh, I'm in my own world - I know I'm the guy doing this here.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsWould BeTogetherGuyMy OwnLevelsSeeingNew YorkNeededStressClubsCriticalGoing OutStressedDjsSamplePittsburghStressed OutMy Own World Author:Girl Talk
“I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.” KnowsSaidStatesReasonEnoughFilmSawsNew YorkChangedNeededHorribleDepartmentEditorsAdsMasterpieceNew York TimesAssistantsChanged My LifeHacksDiplomatsButchersCalifornians Author:Thelma Schoonmaker
“...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their water supply comes from hundreds of miles away and any interruption of that, or food, or power for any period of time, you're going to have riots in the streets. Our society is so fragile, so dependent on the interworking of things to provide us with goods and services, that you don't need nuclear warfare to fragment us anymore than the Romans needed it to cause their eventual downfall.” NeedsCausesWaterCitiesStreetsNew YorkNeededPeriodsNuclearMilesDependentOur SocietyGoodsLos AngelesChicagoFragileWarfareFragmentsRiotBreakdownNuclear WarDownfallInterruptionsMiles AwayGoods And ServicesLarge Cities Author:Gene Roddenberry
“I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.” WantedNew YorkNeededPhotographyWeaponsBallsKicks Author:William Klein
“Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.” WorldTryingYearsHelpingSeemsBornAnimalCitiesNew YorkNeededTwentiesKillingLiberationKitchenSundayNew York CityFactoriesSoupFarmingCleanersKinderOvensAnimal LiberationFactory FarmingSoup Kitchens Author:Karen Dawn
“It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.” ThinkingBookSelfCharacterAnswersFictionCuttingNew YorkPersonalityNeededAddIncludingGenerousExplicitMatchingJuliusConcealing Author:Teju Cole
“It used to be, if you wanted to have a strong, influential voice in the feminist movement, you really needed to be part of this New York/D.C. elite group of feminists, or part of a mainstream feminist organization. And now it's kind of an amazing thing that you can just start a blog and put your voice out there and build your readership.” IfsKindWantedUsedStrongVoiceGroupsNew YorkMovementNeededOrganizationFeministUsed To BeElitesMainstreamBlogsInfluentialAmazing ThingsReadershipFeminist Movement Author:Jessica Valenti
“I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.” RunningBornCommunityNew YorkGrewNeededRepublicanGrew UpDemocratNeighborhoodMarchBrooklynOur CommunityMarch On WashingtonBrooklyn New York Author:Leah D. Daughtry