When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.
I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of eve...
For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.
I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.
L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.
Comic-Con fans are so affectionate, and it's always a lovely way to start a new season.
I have a shoe habit. If I'm in New York, it's a problem because I'm walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it's not as bad.
When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage.
Each day two things I am very grateful for:the blessing of a new day and a successful ending of the day.
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.
I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.
I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
