- Hardest Thing
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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
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bejart is almost never performed in New York City; critically, he just gets attacked here.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ballet is certainly appreciated in New York, but it has been a part of the Russian culture, history and heritage for hundreds of years, so it's much more instilled in the Russian blood.
- Darn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a dude who is meant to be on a couch in New York City thumbing through magazines.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I first came to Los Angeles being staggered by the range of roles open to me. These were leading parts in shiny new projects, and what always excited me was knowing there was a possibility that I could actually get these parts. I always had the impression that I had a chance.
- Donor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're black and have leukemia, the chances of finding a donor are drastically reduced. I added my name to the register, and lo and behold, six months later, I was asked to donate. I had a week of 'conditioning' where I had to take these pills and injections to create new stem cells in my body.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love New York. New York is busy. It's dirty. It's smelly. I'm a real urban animal: I love cities. I like being in the middle of it all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
- Caught
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- Nov 07, 2020
In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.
- New Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.
- Grad School
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- Nov 07, 2020