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“I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at the Mud Club in NYC. Keith owed me $50, so he gave me a large framed canvas with barking dogs that had large dicks. I painted over Keith's painting to paint flowers for my mom's living room.”

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Author:Steve Kaufman

“My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.”

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Author:James Iha

“I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here.”

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Author:David Burtka

“Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.”

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Author:Wyclef Jean

“When I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around the world. And that created a kind of innocence, or parochial quality, even in NYC.”

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Author:Dani Shapiro

“My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.”

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Author:Julianna Baggott

“I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.”

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Author:Adrian Grenier

“My first album was called Seven Waves, and was directly inspired by the ocean, and the ocean has been a leitmotif in my music. Nature was my inspiration even in NYC, because I needed that balance - I would travel out to nature. I loved the big city, I loved the energy, but I needed the balance.”

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Author:Suzanne Ciani

“I did in fact take a couple of classes at my local college here in NYC. But I did it unwillingly and without enthusiasm. That is until a protest broke out in the streets around campus against rising tuition costs.”

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Author:Lewis Schiff

“I was 17 when I moved to NYC . I'm now 32. But I do know I can't see myself living anywhere else. I love the food, the fashion, art, the intelligence of this city and the people that live in it.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes you love diversity in NYC or anywhere. What makes you love diversity is because you live in it and you experience it.”

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Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I don't watch much TV because I'm a very active person. I get up early. I love cooking, walking around NYC, hanging with friends. I looooove going out to restaurants of all sorts. I just dig exploring.”

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Author:Tina Parol

“When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.”

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Author:Tyra Banks

“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'”

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Author:Robert De Niro

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”

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Book:America Day by Day

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“I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.”

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Author:Aida Turturro

“My good friends David and Avi sent me a text greeting from their gym in NYC at 8 a.m. this morning. Isn't that a fine how do you do!”

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Author:Dean Haglund

“I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with that sweet yet nauseating smell of decomposing groceries sitting in the humid fetid air, and rancid food juices oozing over the sticky sidewalks. With my windows open to counter the stuffiness, I could occasionally catch a whiff of the stench outside. People actually like living in this chaotic, fetid monument to incompetence? Beats me.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet refuses to be destroyed. The shape only improved with weathering. I bought several for my storefront in NYC, but it felt like a fish out of water in the city. It cries out for the California coastline and the arid deserts of Africa.”

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Author:Andy Spade

“Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!”

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Author:Kevin Nealon

“I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.”

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Author:Greta Gerwig

“NYC, You Inspire Me to never stop exploring the endless possibilities of food.”

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Author:Mike Lee

“New York is like that perfect lover that just won't commit but he's so good that you hang around anyway, NYC is dreamy!”

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Author:Bevy Smith

“There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.”

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Author:Trevor Dunn