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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN I'm used to driving fast; I'm a New Yorker. DMX I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues. ZOE KRAVITZ Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Technically, I'm a New Yorker. CHARLIE DAY I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is. KARA DIOGUARDI I mostly read online - tech/VC blogs. I also enjoy the 'NY Times', 'Atlantic', '... CHRISTINE TSAI Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. VANESSA FERLITO I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every ... TAMARA TUNIE I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actuall... SHERRI SHEPHERD I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage. CHEYENNE JACKSON I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm no... DYLAN WALSH I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be. DAVID BOWIE Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that i... DANIEL ALARCON I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it&... KIM KARDASHIAN I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. I... DAVID BOWIE I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an A... BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker. ARMAND ASSANTE I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get ba... VALORIE CURRY Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in m... DAVID SEDARIS William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to wr... ALICE MUNRO If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the la... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read yo... CHARLES R. JACKSON I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so m... DENIS O'HARE I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that com... VIN DIESEL I've had a relatively charmed life. I loved to be out in the city. New York was my town. I'v... ALEC BALDWIN I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaw... KATE WINSLET Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.' ROBERT PATTINSON The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. N... DENZEL WASHINGTON I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I... CARRIE VAUGHN I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Va... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi... ERIC DANE I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in jo... EMMA CAULFIELD When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going h... COLUM MCCANN I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropp... JAMAICA KINCAID I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone ha... ELIZABETH WURTZEL I'm constantly doing new stuff. I'm always excited. I'm a one-man tornado. KENNY SCHARF I would say that I love pizza so much that sometimes I eat pizza while I'm eating pizza. Like, I... MIKE BIRBIGLIA Sometimes, I get so annoyed when other people brag. And sometimes, I know that I'm better than t... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... BROOKE SMITH Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constant... 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JAMES GANDOLFINI I first thought about doing a project about Anna Wintour and 'Vogue' when I read an article ... R. J. CUTLER La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months... ED KOCH When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an... NATE SILVER Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of ... KATHY GRIFFIN The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scien... BAHA'I INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There'... EMINEM I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalama... DEREK JETER If I'm in a serious play, I often think to myself, 'I could make that line funny.' EVE ARDEN For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do... CONNOR FRANTA If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jac... IAN MCKELLEN Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more cri... HUNTER HAYES Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm ... CAROLINE WOZNIACKI At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop... KAREN BENDER 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to wa... MARA WILSON I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my ... NATHAN FIELDER Al Roker is one of the most sensible people you'll ever meet. He's raised two daughters and ... TAMRON HALL To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but... CHARLES POLLOCK I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That's a double whammy there. I constantly have to check... TONY CARDENAS I am a New Yorker. CONNIE STEVENS If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by Go... KURT VONNEGUT I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I... ROB SHEFFIELD I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. TED TURNER I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to b... ERIC LADIN I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself. BRUCE WILLIS Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,&... PAUL ENGLE I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't ... ELLEN BARKIN
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