“Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.” ImportantRealMovingHouseOpinionSuccessfulHonestNew YorkAgentsBeing SuccessfulAggressivePublishingAspirePublishing House Author:John Lescroart
“Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.” ActorsDifficultCareersSuccessfulNew YorkTelevisionMovedActressesScreensCardsMiamiObtainingGuildsSuccessful CareerTelevision Commercials Author:Donna Rice Hughes
“The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.” PeopleKnowsCompanySuccessfulMediaNew YorkGiantsNew York Times Author:David Plotz
“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
“Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's [Kessler] insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."” IfsKnowsShouldPlayShowsSuccessfulNew YorkBandInsightTouringDemos Author:Paul Banks
“I like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.” StuffEffortSuccessfulToo MuchNew YorkTypeInvolvedProjectsBuiltEastParksConservationEast Africa Author:Edward Norton
“The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.” IfsMatterEnemyPrinciplesPracticeSuccessfulNew YorkPoliticianOfficeAdvantageClaimsGentlemanRetiringDefeatedSpoilFastidious Author:William L. Marcy
“As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence.” IfsSaidWonderSuccessfulStupidNew YorkSummerDecidedWinterGiantsViciousNew York TimesIncompetenceOpinionatedMyopic Author:James Purdy
“I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful people who feel incredibly entitled, perhaps justifiably, but I don't want to be around viciously entitled people.” PeopleWantFeelsSuccessfulNew YorkExcitingLondonSuccessful PeopleEntitledVicious Author:Moby
“Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. I cannot believe that quality education costs as much as it does in this country. Ghetto Film School is a remarkable public high school in New York City where students get to learn to express themselves through filmmaking, and have hands-on access to equipment.” BelieveDoeCountryEnoughHandsSchoolFilmCitiesQualitySuccessfulNew YorkStudentsCollegeHugeCostLuckyHigh SchoolActressesAccessRemarkableNew York CityFilmmakingEquipmentPublic SchoolGhettoThirteenFilm SchoolQuality Education Author:Julia Stiles
“Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.” PeopleKnowsGivingKindLongRealJobsSuccessfulNew YorkLong TimeGive MeCall MeNetworking Author:Joel Stein
“My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done 'Hair' in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.” YearsFirstsDoneFilmBlackSuccessfulNew YorkHairShotsWesternReleaseCaliforniaFeaturesCashMexicoBroadwayJaneSantaGigsJohnsonKirkGunfightsSanta FeRaf Author:Keith Carradine