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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my…

— Ice T

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of…

— Ice T

My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and…

— Naomi Klein

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler

New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and…

— Jason Whitlock

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

— Greta Gerwig

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York,…

— Gillian Flynn

We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Even after my family moved West, I would come back to Long Island as a teenager, stay with aunts and go to the city…

— Everlast

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

— Milan Kundera

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be…

— Ford Madox Ford

We'd always come into Syracuse for the Empire State Games and the stair fair.

— Beau Biden

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

— Julie Kavner

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

— Agnes Varda