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Quotes About New York City

I live in New York City. Since 1983, this is my home. It is my heart, it is my home, and it is the city that I love. I enjoy many places and many opportunities, but I absolutely adore New York City.
~ Ruben Santiago-Hudson
I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.
~ Lisa Randall
I've probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in New York City with the possible exception of Mike Bloomberg, who was there for 12 years.
~ Rudy Giuliani
I always give respect to and pay homage to New York, because I don't feel like I would be the player that I am today if it wasn't for New York City. It gives you a certain edge, a certain toughness just growing up in the city.
~ Joakim Noah
I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.
~ Gillian Jacobs
I grew up in Connecticut, going in and out of New York City, and I worked in the city in the '90s. I was freelancing for the Associated Press, and I fell in love with New York.
~ Lynsey Addario
I definitely feel most at home in New York City, although I get stir-crazy if I'm here too long.
~ Martha Hunt
I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
~ Garth Risk Hallberg
I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
~ Joel Sternfeld
I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.
~ Mimi Kennedy
I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City.
~ Robin Lord Taylor
I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.
~ John Curran
I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.
~ Eric Maskin
I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
~ Jon Favreau
I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.
~ Katie Nolan
I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.
~ Ben Schnetzer
I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.
~ Mark V. Hurd
Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
~ Mike D
My first flight was in my early 20s, from New York City to Los Angeles, to shoot a Cherry 7-UP commercial.
~ Joanna Going
New York City is a big city but a small city when it comes to theater.
~ Mike Colter
I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.
~ Justin Peck
There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.
~ Richard Belzer