“It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.” YearsWellsMayTwoBookAcceptingNew YorkReadyLike YouRejectionInterviewsThrownTwo YearsNew York TimesChampagne Author:George R. R. Martin
“I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.” YearsFirstsTwoJobsUsedLeftStuffNew YorkSummerMajorsDecidedCamerasFilmmakerTwo YearsJuniorsAdvisorsSophomoreJunior Year Author:Spike Lee
“I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.” YearsFirstsTwoJoyNew YorkFirst TimeYears AgoGladTwo YearsHelenHarveyTwo Years Ago Author:James Stewart
“In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.” YearsArtTwoSchoolSocialNew YorkResearchVisualsTwo YearsGraduatesAnthropologyVisual ArtGraduate School Author:Aleksandra Mir
“I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.” YearsTwoJobsStreetsNew YorkTwo YearsBegging Author:Hal Holbrook
“I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.” YearsTwoParentNew YorkMetsMovedRaisedUniversityFamiliarTwo YearsSouthernMississippiRio Author:Fred Armisen
“When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.” YearsLittlesTwoSchoolFilmFeltMy OwnNew YorkTwo YearsTaxiOwn BusinessFilm SchoolNyu Author:Todd Phillips