- Dreams
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did Second City, and Nia Vardalos also did Second City, so I knew her from there.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moving to New York City by myself at 17 was certainly my bravest moment. I bought a one-way ticket and stayed with a friend of a friend and figured it out along the way.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told my parents I wanted to move to New York City and be an actress when I was around seven or eight.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't say that a big family is for everybody, and I've brought my kids, for example, to New York City, and I can tell you it's much harder to raise that number of kids in a city like New York than it is to raise them in rural Wisconsin where I live.
- Frail
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
- Advice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020