New York Quotes - Page 130

What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

I live in New York now and most of magazines have turned more towards reality stars. So, really I think that's great because it's turned towards people who want it rather than... So, I think it's actually kind of imploding in on itself a little bit.

New York vintage is too expensive!

I started when I was three years old, doing commercials and Modeling in New York, I liked it so much that I kept doing it.

People in New York, LA, San Francisco, they scratch their head at the concept of a gay Republican, but it really makes sense there.

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

He looked a shade too healthy and nobody likes that. Particularly in New York.

My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

One of my favorite apps is VSCO, which is for editing photos. I think they have great filters. And then I read the New York Times.

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a different host every week and different musicians. I always thought, "This is great. I never expected to get this in the first place, so I'm just happy being here."

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you. You're on foot and everyone is at street level and eye-to-eye. I think that's what's special about New York, because there's no hierarchy, there's no discrimination.

I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce 's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.