#new york city

I live not too far from it in New York City. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#far #i #live #new #new york

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#city #first #first time #i #new

I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#any #city #day #i #like

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#desire #elsewhere #get #go #i

There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#city #different #different kinds #exposed #fast

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#city #i #i was born #new #new york

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#better #boyhood #city #great #great need

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#doctor #draft #during #early #fifties

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am. ↗

— Chris Paul

#california #care #carolina #city #florida