- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Beside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Northern Exposure.' I loved that show; I loved the way it was able to have episodes where somebody finds a woolly mammoth, he calls the museum in New York, they send a guy out, and the mammoth's gone because someone ate it. To me, that was everything I ever wanted to do. That show mixed emotion, humor and the surreal all at once.
- New Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.
- Plays
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to do some new plays.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020