#new york

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#alone #always #anything #difficult #guess

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#am #anchored #any #die #here

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. ↗

— Peter Stone

#during #happen #musicals #new #new york

So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers. ↗

— Edward Burns

#got #new #new yorkers #then #yorkers

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#cutting edge #edge #especially #ever #exciting

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#across #after #also #amazing #because

The glamour of it all! New York! America! ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#glamour #new #new york #york

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#before #elevated #give #going #got

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#billion #city #country #department #dollars

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#art #excuse #experiences #live #most