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"Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented."
A. E. Hotchner
New York
Cities
Being There
"The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear."
A. J. Liebling
Country
New York
Thinking
"Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows."
A. J. Liebling
Sweet
New York
Texas
"I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God."
Aaron Eckhart
Jobs
New York
Years
"I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY."
Aaron Tveit
New York
Grew Up
Miles
"When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them."
Aaron Yoo
New York
People
Subway
"In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!"
Aasif Mandvi
New York
Thinking
America
"I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how."
Abbey Lincoln
Music
New York
Unhappy
"You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody."
Abe Lemons
Sports
New York
Oklahoma
"My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English."
Abel Ferrara
New York
Years
Southern Italy
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