- Marriage
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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
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is that our oil and gas reserves are not renewable and they are diminishing, and to protect the generations to come, we must engage in nothing short of a radical shift in the diversification of the economy.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I love the story, and if I really connect with my character, I'm willing to do it. I'm willing to try new characters, to be someone that I'm not like. I like trying new emotions and being new characters. That's the thing about acting: You can be so many things!
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never short of inspiration. There are always new ideas - and new adventures.
- Heights
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- Nov 07, 2020