“I find the older I get, the lower in weight I go. It's harder to recover. Living in New York City, working a job that is unpredictable and at times stressful, you're lifting way more than your max because you need to push some weight around. You put an extra plate on for the release, and then you're sore the next week. Its stress release.” WayNeedsJobsNextCitiesWeekNew YorkWeightStressHarderReleaseExtrasNew York CityPlatesUnpredictableLiftingMaxStressfulNext WeekStress Release Author:Danny Pino
“I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn't know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn't stop crying.” KnowsFirstsNextDoorsCryNew YorkMomFirst TimeWindowCaughtScaredMy MomGradesCaught UpSubwayI Love New York Author:Skylar Grey
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.” PeopleStoriesAmericaReadingNextCitiesWatchesNew YorkConversationTablesTrainNewspapersRestaurantsSubway Author:Bill Geist
“People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.” PeopleWantLightKidsNightDiesNextNew YorkDadBedMy DadJarsFirefly Author:Karrine Steffans
“I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?” PeopleFirstsDifferentHardStatesLastsFacesCoursesNextWhiteHappenedNew YorkFirst TimeEnglandMadClintonDrunkNext TimeLast WordsUnrealBlairEuphoriaGood WordsNew Faces Author:Doris Lessing
“I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.” IfsI CanEnoughWholeNextNamesBitsCitiesCarNew YorkWasteFairsIntentionLegsViolentDrunkCodeSmokingNew York CityCrashNext DayGetting DrunkPukeCar CrashPerlHang Over Author:Erik Naggum
“Right after the show tonight, I'm going to the New York City car show. You get to see the models that will be crashed next year by drunken Secret Service agents.” YearsShowsNextSecretCitiesCarNew YorkModelsAgentsTonightNew York CityNext YearSecret Service Author:David Letterman
“I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.” WritingBookEndsArtistNextLinesNew YorkMonthsSummerStoresOpeningWriting A BookJanuaryLaunchingBedding Author:Genevieve Gorder
“If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.” IfsWantThreeNextNew YorkBasketballClubsNbaContractsBikeThree TimesAthletic Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.” PeopleWorldUsedGuyNextWatchesFansNew YorkBaseballSeriesFingersWinterDrivingUsed To BeLos AngelesWorld SeriesFreewaysBaseball Fans Author:Graig Nettles
“I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.” ThinkingFirstsNextTalkingNew YorkCoupleSittingFirst TimeTeaShopsRealisedAbbey Author:Michelle Dockery
“It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.” MenShouldMeanGirlNextNew YorkStandingCastsLimitationQueensAlsDe NiroQueen Elizabeth Author:Ellen Barkin
“In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.” MeanNextStruggleNew YorkTablesKitchenSeatsPretendingBus Author:Mason Cooley
“I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when my mind is freshest. I might write for a couple of hours, and then I head out to have lunch and read the paper. Then I write for a little bit longer if I can, then probably go to the library or make some phone calls. Every day is a little bit different. I'm not highly routinized, so I spend a lot of time wandering around New York City with my laptop in my bag, wondering where I'm going to end up next. It's a fairly idyllic life for someone who likes writing.” IfsWritingMindLittlesI CanDifferentEndsHomeMightNextBitsHoursCitiesWonderMorningNew YorkCoupleOfficePaperLittle BitLibraryPhonesLikesWanderBagsNew York CityLunchPhone CallsLaptopsWandering AroundIdyllic Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.” BookFormReadingNextNew YorkInternetFindingsLibraryVersionsSurfingBack WhenBooks And ReadingPublic LibrarySurfing The Internet Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are out of work, or actors anywhere out of work, are manic because you never know when the next job is going to come.” PeopleKnowsJobsNextActorsNew YorkActressesProfessionManicParcelActors And Actresses Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition.” KnowsPersonsHappensNextCitiesSituationNew YorkStrangeWalkingEmptyCompetitionNew York CityPaceAwkwardSidewalkAwkward Situations Author:Aaron Karo
“I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."” ChildrenSaidIdeasMotherNextFatherBornHappenedNew YorkImmigrantsPregnantSweden Author:Claes Oldenburg
“I learned to drum and I'm very excited today. Well, first of all I got to...I learned when I was in New York I sort of did some prepping with just learning basic stuff like beating my couch next to my drum teacher, who's this incredible guy named Charlie Green.” FirstsWellsTodayGuyNextStuffTeacherNew YorkGreenIncrediblesExcitedCouchesCharlie Author:Alison Pill
“One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street. I was with a friend who said to me, You just littered on the street! Don't you care about the environment? And I thought about it, and I said, You know what? This isn't the environment. This is New York City. New York City is not the environment. New York City is a giant piece of litter. Next to Mexico City, it's the shittiest piece of litter in the world. Just a pussy, runny, smokin', stinkin' piece of litter.” KnowsWorldSaidCareNextCitiesEnvironmentPiecesStreetsNew YorkGiantsNew York CityOne TimeMexicoCandyPussyMexico City Author:Louis C. K.
“Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school.” KnowsEyeSchoolNextStepsClassNew YorkMinesCollegeResponsibleGraduatesBeing ResponsibleNext StepsGraduate SchoolAfter SchoolJuilliardStay In School Author:Peter Jacobson
“I spent time on set in New York and Berlin sitting next to Steven Spielberg while he worked, which was the biggest thrill of my life.” NextNew YorkSittingThrillBerlin Author:Matt Charman
“I have one rave New York Times review framed next to a flop Los Angeles Times review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.” PeopleShowsHappensHateNextNew YorkLos AngelesReviewsNew York TimesFramedRave Author:Bruce Vilanch
“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.” WayYearsArtWholeTogetherJobsMotherNextFatherSidesDoorsNew YorkBrotherMomMarriedScientistMovedNeighborMy BrotherDancerChicagoMy SisterSymphonyPianistWhole FamilyNext Door NeighborsCellists Author:Jason Graae
“My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.” FirstsGuyNextSilenceFiveTeamMinutesNew YorkTerribleIceBrokeSatInterviewsBusFive MinutesRangersFirst Date Author:Steve Rushin
“New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.” Has BeensNextLevelsCitiesNew YorkNext LevelBest Gift Author:Baratunde Thurston