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New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

I live not too far from it in New York City.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

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

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.