#new york

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#art world #began #cinematic #elitist #exercise

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#entire #entire world #expect #new #new york

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be. ↗

— David Bowie

#amazing #anywhere #day #else #i

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York. ↗

— Tory Burch

#different #different areas #energy #going #i

I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#been #business #challenge #challenges #comfort

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City. ↗

— Steve Burns

#bother #calm #calm down #city #cleaner

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#city #cool #expect #hip #i

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#cake #culinary #design #designers #french

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#detroit #entertainment #figure #go #hollywood

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#bound #especially #i #incredible #library