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New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
‐‐ Gyorgy Ligeti -
New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.
‐‐ Emma Forrest -
New York is the great stone desert.
‐‐ Israel Zangwill -
New York is the greatest city in the world.
‐‐ Anna Wood -
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon -
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
‐‐ Djuna Barnes -
New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
‐‐ Edi Gathegi -
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
‐‐ Lewis Mumford -
New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.
‐‐ Clark Gregg -
New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
‐‐ Yayoi Kusama -
New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.
‐‐ Nelson Algren -
New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.
‐‐ Thom Mayne -
New York is tough on lonely people.
‐‐ Michael Bergin -
New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.
‐‐ Busta Rhymes -
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
‐‐ Jonathan Dee -
New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.
‐‐ Tony Scott -
New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.
‐‐ Georgina Chapman -
New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.
‐‐ Robert Wilson -
New York is where you go to catch a big fish.
‐‐ Jessica Cutler -
New York is who I am.
‐‐ Lea Michele -
New York ladies all look immaculate.
‐‐ Zac Posen -
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
‐‐ John Updike -
New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
‐‐ Anthony Weiner -
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
‐‐ Patricia Marx -
New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
‐‐ Griffin Dunne -
New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.
‐‐ Kat Edmonson -
New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis -
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
‐‐ David Letterman -
New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
‐‐ Alvaro Enrigue -
New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.
‐‐ June Squibb -
New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.
‐‐ Marissa Moss -
New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.
‐‐ Malin Akerman -
New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.
‐‐ Chace Crawford -
New York's definitely got my heart.
‐‐ Caitriona Balfe -
New York's food scene is truly unique because it is this wonderful melting pot where immigrants from all over the world have brought with them their cuisines and their ingredients.
‐‐ Daniel Humm -
New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen -
New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
‐‐ John Cusack -
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
‐‐ Vanessa Ferlito -
New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.
‐‐ Fred Wilson -
New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.
‐‐ Julian Ovenden -
New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.
‐‐ Patti LuPone -
New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.
‐‐ Tom Golisano -
New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'
‐‐ Bill Dedman -
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
‐‐ Adam Savage -
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo -
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
‐‐ Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
‐‐ Christopher Morley -
New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.
‐‐ Chris Noth
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