Back in the day Quote by Kim Basinger

I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each…

— Claire Cameron

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

— Orson Bean

Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their commitment to…

— Bill Ayers

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the…

— Bill Dixon

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was…

— Mark Boal

After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No…

— Dino De Laurentiis

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

— Aminatta Forna

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of…

— Neil Sheehan

I remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.

— Neil Bush

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in…

— Huey Lewis

I wasn't from the streets, but I was in the streets. I had a good family, nice home - you know, I can't say…

— Pepa

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in…

— Dick Gregory