- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
City Quotes
Every city leaves its own kind of mark.
Several of these quotes settle on New York specifically - raising children there, chasing a ballet career through its top companies, or building a life around it after moving from elsewhere. Others reflect on falling in love with a campus city the way you'd love Paris. See Cities Quotes for more.
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- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an illegal vote is cast for president, that illegal vote is also cast for a city councilman.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.
- Dubai
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really eager to play the BWF Destination Dubai World Superseries Finals, especially after my enjoyable visit to the city.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.
- Grad School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020