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“In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.”

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

“I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my profession is that I was a cop in the New York City Police Department. I guess people thought it was pretty interesting to have these two things meshed together. My life is pretty boring, I don't know why they're doing this. It's fun.”

“I've worked with the Warrens. For about 20 years. I was really good friends with Ed. Ed and Lorraine. We went our separate ways, there were a few differences. In their organization, being that they were from Connecticut, I started the New York City chapter of the organization and handled things in New York. But eventually I was out on my own. But I've been friends with them for a long time.”

Way Years Long Differences My Own Cities New York Long Time Organization New York City Chapters Good Friend Connecticut Really Good Friends Lorraine Separate Ways

Author:Ralph Sarchie

“Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.”

Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

“Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was also seen by many as a liberator of Cuba. 'I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.' Castro said at the time. Only after he consolidated power, did he tell the truth: 'I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.'”

“I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky.”

Years Kids Age Jobs Young Left New York Lucky Blessed University Making Money Agency Thank God Young Age Modeling Georgia Waitress

Author:Kim Basinger

“I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.”

People Trying Years Dream Bigs Age New York Building Months Six Decided Moved California American Dream Six Months Swarms Living The American Dream

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.”

Years States Age Culture Language Born New York Towns Spokes Southern Grandfather My Grandfather Southern Italy

Author:Abel Ferrara

“Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.”

“I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it.”

Years Stills Remember Father Wonderful Seeing New York Listening Performances Productions Choir Pageant Upstate New York

Author:Renee Fleming

“Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.”

“I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!”

Men Years Seems Worst New York Bed Ten Dresses Unmade Beds

Author:Orson Welles

“I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.”

Thinking Trying Years Nice New York Materials Blue Boxes Combination Dirty Royal

Author:Redd Foxx

“The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City. The traditional meal often includes gefilte fish. For those of you who don't know what gefilte fish is, it strongly resembles a ball of tuna fish that has been passed nasally. It's not good. During Passover, the angel of death passed over the Jews - an event that, up until the late 1950s, was re-enacted every year by Ivy League colleges and suburban country clubs.”

“I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown, and it stopped at 14th Street. At the station, the doors opened, and the conductor announced that there was a bomb on board and we should evacuate immediately. Nobody moved. We just looked at each other, 'Do you see a bomb?' 'I don't see a bomb.' 'There's no bomb.' 'I've only got two stops - let's go for it.”

Should Years Long Two Doors Streets New York Years Ago Moved Boards Bombs Stations Subway Conductor Downtown

Author:Lewis Black

“Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King.”

Years Firsts Ends Country States Government Guy Names Poor Half Century New York Kings Dollars Population Oil Revenue Monarchy Arabia Systems Of Government New York State

Author:Craig Ferguson

“The New York Post quoted Senator Hillary Clinton saying that she would never run for President, declaring "That is not something I'm going to be doing. "Which in Clinton talk means "I will be President in three years.”

Years Mean Running Three President New York Clinton Posts Three Years Senators Declaring

Author:Tina Fey

“I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."”

Years Said My Own Half Records New York Selling Evening Phonograph

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.”

Years Two Moving Guy Courses Half Five New York West Five Years Comparison Coast West Coast

Author:Ben Webster

“I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.”

Trying Years Firsts Waiting Cities New York Years Ago Tables Actresses New York City Waitress Waiting Tables

Author:Kim Dickens

“I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.”

Years Facts Remember Air New York Years Ago India Flying Fantastic Indian Boards Curry Indian Food

Author:Phil Collins

“When I arrived in New York I was definitely the worst player in town! It was just a measure of how far I had to go. It took years, while I was at Juilliard I worked different weekends with different people.”

People Years Different Player Worst New York Towns Weekend Different Peoples Juilliard

Author:Paul Bley

“I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.”

Years Kind Wanted Morning Growing Up Growing New York Twenties Radio Accidents Comedian Chicago Hometown Carols Buffalo Stand Up Comedian Rochester

Author:Stephanie Miller

“I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.”

Years Book New York College Degrees Bases University Hunters Another Year Places I've Been

Author:Grace Paley

“Even when I went to America I didn't work for four years. It wasn't like I came to New York and it was the land of milk and honey. It was just as much of a hard graft. But there's a lot more opportunity nowadays across the board for actors, no matter what color you are, with the Internet and small productions.”

Years Matter Hard America Actors Opportunity Four Land New York Color Internet No Matter What Productions Boards Honey Milk Four Years Milk And Honey

Author:Idris Elba

“I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.”

Years Art Done School Film Acting New York High School Theater Performing And Off Performing Arts

Author:Carole King

“Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.”

“Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'”

World Years Children Home School Fun Realizing Deals Growing Up Too Much Growing New York Glory Wake Up I Realized Snow My Children Shocked Californians Too Much Fun Snow Day

Author:Adam Savage

“I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'”

Years Kids Left Company Four Wife New York Incredibles Eight My Wife Priorities Great Company

Author:Anthony Edwards

“Hillary Clinton has reportedly accepted Barack Obama's offer to become secretary of state. That's what they're saying in the New York Times. Yeah, according to Bill Clinton, this is the first time in 20 years that Hillary has said 'yes.'”

Years Firsts Said States New York Offers First Time Yeah Bills Clinton Accepted Barack Secretary New York Times

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Hillary Clinton flew with President Bush to New York City on Tuesday. She was amazed at the changes aboard Air Force One. For eight years she believed that flight attendants couldn't wear clothes because it made the plane too heavy.”

Years Made Force President Cities Air New York Clothes Clinton Heavy Eight Flight Planes New York City Amazed President Bush Flew Tuesday Air Force Flight Attendant Air Force One

Author:Argus Hamilton

“I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?”

Trying Years Said New York Mets Directors Years Ago Theater Moved Distance Extraordinary Everyday Myth Admire Paris Interviews Capture Peter Amazed Brooks Closeness

Author:Paul Auster

“I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.”

Years Two Jobs Streets New York Two Years Begging

Author:Hal Holbrook

“Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was in a very dark place, in lots of foreign cities, far from New York. A lot of personal trials and tribulations took over my life in those years. It might be some time before I see what therapeutic function this book did serve. But for now, it's not even easy to read from it.”

Way Feels Writing Years Book Might Easy Dark Cities New York Function Trauma Trials Tribulation Therapeutic Dark Places Trials And Tribulations

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can't figure out.”

Want Writing Years Stills I Can Stories Fall House Novel Figures New York Years Ago Falling Apart Upstate New York

Author:Craig Finn

“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.”

“Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone like me who's always tried to make a living at it, it's been great, I'm very grateful for it. But at the same time, it's not a subculture-y thing anymore; it's something that's in the New York Times and the New Yorker.”

Years Looks Lasts Culture New York Grateful Moved Like Me Mainstream American Culture New York Times New Yorkers Subculture

Author:Adrian Tomine

“I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York.”

Years Three New York Paris Three Years

Author:Michelle Stuart

“But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.”

Years Levels New York Movement Return Involved Despair Liberation Eleanor Esther

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“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.”

“For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.”

People Thinking Way Years Different States New York Movement Appreciate My Family Connected Partners Posts Shock Remarkable Take Time It Takes Time Like Family Counterculture

Author:Aaron Brookner

“So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."”

Ifs Years Made Opportunity New York Mets Directors Mark Meetings Lists Agents Managers Casting Missed Opportunity Casting Directors

Author:William Mapother

“I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom.”

People Years Has Beens Art Culture Walks Streets Events New York Building Neighbor Pot Melting Brooklyn Melting Pot Brooklyn New York

Author:Erin Willett

“I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.”

Years Moving Order Acting Careers New York College Majors Work Out Pursue Los Angeles Contracts Senior Turned Down Senior Year

Author:Justin Hires

“I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored.”

Years Bigs Would Be Deals Five New York Mark Blessed Five Years Honored

Author:Tituss Burgess

“I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The Last Five Years. It's amazing how things come full-circle and how the community (once you hang around it long enough) grows smaller and smaller as it grows. Sharing the stage with these people is more than a dream come true it's so special. They're so warm and giving and offer the best advice. Sherie is very nice and maternal and nurturing.”

“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.”

“Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.”

Thinking Years Lasts Sound Decision Wonder New York Position Honestly Setting Settings Last Year Jet Bulgaria Down Time

Author:Sean Mahon

“You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.”

Feels Years Self New York Like You Walking Evening Friday June Old Self

Author:John Darnielle

“I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then I lived in Melbourne. Then I moved back to Gothenburg because the immigrant laws are strict for both Australia and the U.S., and I would have to marry someone to get into those countries. But I wouldn't really be able to get involved in a sham marriage without being able to tell anyone about it.”

Years Country Able Law Four New York Months Involved Moved Australia Immigrants Strict Get Involved Suitcases Melbourne

Author:Jens Lekman

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