#new york

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#ask #gets #letters #manuscripts #might

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#been #chance #deeply #did #expected

In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#arena #driver #governor #i #immigrants

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#believed #every #i #i tried #new

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#because #i #new #new york #novel

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half. ↗

— William E. Geist

#been #brown #could #dollar #first-class

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State. ↗

— Brian Higgins

#democrat #i #independent #most #new

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#born #friends #go #i #man

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#business #great #hard #here #new

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. ↗

— John Bolton

#building #difference #lost #make #nations