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- Nov 07, 2020
East Coast Quotes
Voices shaped by growing up or traveling along the coast.
This page gathers reflections from people whose accents, upbringing, or career paths were shaped by living along the eastern seaboard, from childhood in a coastal Chinese city to college years in Maine. For related themes on roots and belonging, see the Family quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pete Rock, CL Smooth, all this East Coast stuff - that's kind of, like, the rappers I first admired. I wanna rap just like them because I just thought they were so hard. I thought their delivery was so crazy.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
- Handling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything from Washington's handling of the N.S.A., as well as Apple launching a new iPhone. These events can move billions of dollars in the stock market, and it seems as if the East Coast and West Coast are merging in some respects, so we felt like we needed a little bit more from a content perspective to match what our audience was looking for.
- Bay
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- Nov 07, 2020
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about Canada is that it's a very large country, and the population's very spread out among different regions. Each region in the country really has its own personality and its own culture, you know? From West Coast to East Coast - wherever you go, it's almost like it's its own country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
- American Tradition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.
- Finding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
- Following
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020