Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.
My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.
I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.
The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
My style has definitely grown since moving to New York and working on 'Gossip Girl.' I'm more aware of a lot of designers and I'm more aware of fashion.
Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.
Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.
I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.
The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency — how to accurately anticipate the future.
