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New York is who I am.York-- Lea Michele
When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.
I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.
I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
I know one of the secrets the rest of the country hasn't figured out yet: it's not New Yorkers who are rude, it's the tourists who've seen a movie about rude New Yorkers and think they have to act the same way when they come to New York who are rude.
I used to never miss the 'New Yorker' or 'New York.' Now I never bother.
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
People who move to New York always the same mistake. They can't see the place.
I love Manhattan.
New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.
New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.
I am the young, edgy New Yorker.
New York is our home.
New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
Brooklyn, New York, and
Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.
New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.
As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.
New York is in my soul.
New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
The unspoken truth was that New Yorkers considered everyone in the world to be just a tad - well, more than just a tad, a lot more than a tad - old-fashioned compared with themselves.
Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.
I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)
New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.
New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.
No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.
It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.
I've lived in New York for a really long time.
I love New York.
I love New York, I love the smell of New York ... I love the subway.
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.
New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
People in New York are surprised when I open my mouth.
the norebang we could pretend, but not out here. It's one of the things I like most about New York City. It deflects any attempts you make
I don't spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn't realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.
I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.
Manhattan is where America began.
New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.
There's only one New York.
There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.
New York is tough on lonely people.
I love New York. Love it.
I'm a New York story.
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters.
I grew up in the Bronx.
What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.
I'm a New York girl. I come out of New York theater.
I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
I'm a creature of the New York City streets.
There is a certain type of person who just won't be happy unless she lives in New York at least once in her life.
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.
A wet dream in the mind of New York.
You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
I live in Brooklyn.
The people in New York have no idea what they're doing.
I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street ... I am really a native New Yorker.
New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.
Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.
I love that New York City is a true melting pot.
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.
What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.
You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.
I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.
I love New York. I've always loved New York.
I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my body that even considered staying in Detroit for the rest of my life.
I'm not a New York snob.
It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.
The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
I was born in New York.
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.
When you think New York, you think Yankees.
I live in Brooklyn. By choice,
The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.
My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .