#new york

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#became #came #film #first #i

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

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.' ↗

— David Sedaris

#calling #felt #i #like #myself

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#being #comes #continue #doing #fact

I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#black #commercial #fiction #i #i think

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. ↗

— Robert Quine

#august #bar #failing #here #i

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#different #different place #i #just #like

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' ↗

— James Wolcott

#author #autumn #brought #contender #dan

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#five #instantly #minutes #much #new

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#case #got #government #how #i