#york

Everything in New York is a photograph. All the things that are supposed to be dirty or rough or unrefined are the most beautiful things. Garbage cans at the ends of alleyways look like they've been up all night talking with each other. Doorways with peeling paint look like the wise lines around an old feller's eyes. I stop and stare but can't stay because men always think I'm selling something. Or worse, giving something away. I wish I could be invisible. Or at least I wish I didn't look like someone they want to look at. They stop being part of the picture, they get up from their chess game and come out of the frame at me, blocking my view. ↗

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

#beauty

I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York. ↗

— Karen Allen

#act #breathing #bring #decided #desire

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning. ↗

— Ted Allen

#audition #been #casting #catch #chance

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. ↗

— Mose Allison

#decided #finally #going #gonna #i

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#america #i #island #lives #looks

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#built-in #first #i #i see #neutral

I spend a lot of time writing in New York. ↗

— Keren Ann

#lot #new #new york #spend #time

I have the ability to see results six months later and there's no better feeling. We impact on thousands of people in the world. And in New York, which is the roughest, when people appreciate what we're doing, it puts the Simoniz back on the apple. ↗

— Curtis Sliwa

#apple #appreciate #back #better #doing

The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#arrived #bag #felt #how #i

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#college #education #excellent #existence #financial