I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
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I grew up in the old neighborhood of Beijing where you had a courtyard and trees. Actually, the whole of Beijing was… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
It's scary for a 20-year-old to move to a city where she knows no one, but I did it and thankfully for… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
Sometimes in Portland I'm like, 'Who is funding this city?' It's doing great - there's all these new shops; there's a synthesizer… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
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When I moved to New York City from Israel, I came here with the idea to get a great job, have tons… — Adam Neumann Copy Share Image
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous,… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
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One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
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I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
It's very exciting to have a festival in the heart of Boston. It's an amazing experience to be in a city and… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
The army of the sea shall stand before the city, then shall go away for a passage that shall not be very… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
I don't want to insult anyone's city because the world has been good to the wrestling industry and I'm grateful for that. — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend,… — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of… — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share Image
I went down to Chicago to try to go into a place called Second City. I auditioned for that and got in… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
And since plastic does not naturally degrade, the billions of tons sitting in landfills, floating in the oceans or piling up on… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
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The team I support is Manchester City. And that's because a friend of mine, who I visited when I was in England,… — Oleksandr Usyk Copy Share Image
Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is… — Hailey Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think there's a perception from the city that the country is a very hostile environment. And that's not the case, necessarily. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
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Valencia is a pure Mediterranean city; it is a city like Naples or Palermo, like Rome a little bit. Walking in the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
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