I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I watched commercial ave. slide past and there in the distance were the lights of route 18. that was one of those… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I grew up in a little town in Arkansas called Clarksville and it was a weird existence, you know? I grew up… — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility,… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder. — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore? — Cass Elliot Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
“I'm shocked by anyone who doesn't consider Los Angeles to be anything less than a bozo-saturated hellhole. It is pretty much without… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
There are certain vulnerabilities and insecurities that go along with not being linked to another person in a contractual way, even if… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I'm from Los Angeles. I grew up on the west side. I went to Pali High, Paul Revere, Country Canyon. — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like… — Jonathan Silverman Copy Share Image
New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place. — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew… — Samm Levine Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they… — Moby Copy Share Image
There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting… — Bob Beamon Copy Share Image
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I wish I could show you the little village where I was born. It's so lovely there...I used to think it too… — Mary Kelly Copy Share Image
I lived most of my life in Texas, but I've settled down in Pittsburgh. My husband is from here. We met at… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I dont hate L.A. There's a very beautiful side to it; it's scenic, and I can go horse riding. — Leona Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.” — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York. — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
'The Real Housewives of Miami' only shows my life in Miami, and, to be honest, my life is more L.A. — Joanna Krupa Copy Share Image
I had every intention of leaving Los Angeles, moving to New York, and starting over - but life happened, as it always… — Stassi Schroeder Copy Share Image
God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles? — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are some cities that you go to that bring something out of you. Toronto is one of them. — Kevin Owens Copy Share Image
Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
