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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I never thought we'd get a nomination for a Grammy, period. To be honest, we felt that if we were ever going to get one, we thought we had 'City of Evil' and 'Nightmare' and 'Hail to the King,' and those were all big records, and they never even sniffed at us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
- Nov 07, 2020