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Quotes About New York

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
~ Teddy Sears
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
~ Allan Sherman
Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.
~ John Legend
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
~ James Cagney
Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.
~ Dave Chappelle
Nacida en Nueva York de padres huidos de la represión política en Chile.
~ Neal Stephenson
Wow, this is so great. Snow in New York, isn't it romantic? Only if you love empty theaters.
~ Neil Simon
This, Irene told her, was the year 1927 in the city of New York, and hundreds of white people of Hugh Wentworth's type came to affairs in Harlem, more all the time. So many that Brian had said: "Pretty soon the colored people won't be allowed in at all, or will have to sit in Jim Crowed sections.
~ Nella Larsen
The less he sees of other writers the more of a writer he will ultimately become. When he sees scarcely anyone except other writers, he is ready for New York.
~ Nelson Algren
but every time I run into her in New York, she has a new guy, making me think she's had more fresh mounts than a Pony Express rider.
~ Nelson DeMille
the guy from the Midwest goes up to a New Yorker on the street and says, "Excuse me, sir, can you tell me how to get to the Empire State Building, or should I just go fuck myself?
~ Nelson DeMille
Unlike Britain, France, Italy and Russia, however, Germany did not have access to the international bond market during the war (having initially spurned the New York market and then been shut out of it).
~ Niall Ferguson
The best date I've had would probably have to be one where I went hiking to a big mountain here in New York.
~ Mikhail Varshavski
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
~ Simeon Strunsky
I don't want to deride London because I have such a huge affection for it, but New York lets you move on and grow up.
~ Sophie Dahl
I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.
~ Danny Masterson
I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans.
~ Chloe Sevigny
When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.
~ Krysten Ritter
I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
All My Children,' to me, was like a family... When I moved to New York I didn't know anyone, so these people became, like, my only friends and family for a long time 'cause we're working all the time.
~ Chrishell Stause
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.
~ Donna Rice
I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.
~ Todd Barry
I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.
~ Michael C. Hall
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
~ James Earl Jones