When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I grew up in New Jersey, but my parents are from out west. They moved the family to New Jersey when my… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
“New York city wasn't yet the post-Giuliani, Bloomberg forever, Disneyland tourist attraction of today, trade-marked and policed to protect the visitors and… — B. Ruby Rich Copy Share Image
Portland has influenced me in that it is very much where I feel most "at home" in the world. I grew up… — Kasey Anderson Copy Share Image
I think the people here in New York appreciated what I brought to the table, and they showed it when I retired… — Patrick Ewing Copy Share Image
What's really important for us is that our home base is in L.A., and when we move to Toronto - where 'Suits'… — Sarah Rafferty Copy Share Image
The idea of the beauty of diversity came from just growing up where I grew up. Los Angeles is a very big… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New… — Timothy Levitch Copy Share Image
I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My plan was I just knew, I think the first time I was in a high school play, and I liked the… — David Hedison Copy Share Image
One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I think New York City most represents what it is that America in general aspires to. It's big; it's dense. I've known… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There's this old Frank Sinatra song: 'If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere'... that song was about New… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11 and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment,… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there… — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
One thing I do like about L.A. is the fact that you can be - whether you're famous or it's just a… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that's the thing about London: you can't really shake it. I've always had… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“In compulsively keeping myself out of view, I was participating, without realizing it, in a rich New York tradition. Loners and shut-ins… — Jon-Jon Goulian Copy Share Image
Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years… — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image
My sisters and I live and breathe the Valley. In the '80s, it got a really bad rap, with Valley girls and… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
There are challenges as far as underfunding in various parts of the city. But spirit and sense of community is so much… — Harvey Levin Copy Share Image
People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no… — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
That's what I love about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another. And that's what I hate about… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I left New York after my mother died and, rather aimlessly, had settled in Istanbul for a change of scene. It was… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
