- Practice
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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
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle. And I have since now found a New York where if I lived there now, I know where I would want to live.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what my next dream role gig is, but I have so, so many shows that I'm like, 'Oh my God, can I guest star on 'New Girl?' Like, that would be amazing!'
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes.
- Dissecting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by dissecting and repurposing public speech, prying its falsehoods from its half-truths. It is fighting for its right to critique our would-be democracy.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020