I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.
We were the new people here. We weren’t part of their group. We had to prove ourselves.
Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.
I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.
When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.
If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.
In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way.
Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.
I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.
I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one.
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
The Republicans can send the nation into turmoil, but we will not come to any agreement that does not include new revenue - and not just token new revenue. It is their choice.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
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.
I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.
I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.
