But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.
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Related The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reas... COURTNEY GIARDINA The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s... JODI PICOULT I think I've always had a sort of fantasy or dream that I would like to make a living playing music.... STING You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions we... STEPHENIE MEYER I was in New York and I went to a meatball shop with my friend and there was paparazzi there and I t... BUSY PHILIPPS Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke,... EMMA CLINE The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. Tha... CAMERON CROWE It quickly became apparent that to Mr. K, there was no such thing as an untalented kid—just a kid ... JOANNE LIPMAN AND MELANIE KUPCHYNSKY We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the mov... ROGER WATERS But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized ... SARAH DESSEN But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized ... SARAH DESSEN Basically it was a boring day all around, no matter where you look. It was boring here and it was bo... FRED KETCHEN Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York. ARTHUR ROCK You want to talk about a matter of inches. No one was more distraught than Ambrose after that game. CHARLIE WEIS And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER There was always pressure to make a Scientologist out of the people you were working with. LEAH REMINI No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else. JODI PICOULT You stand there long enough, sometimes it's going to happen. It was luck more than anything else, fo... DAINIUS ZUBRUS It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whol... AUDREY HEPBURN It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whol... AUDREY HEPBURN It was the common thought that New York was doomed. HOWARD RUBENSTEIN I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going t... DREAMA WALKER There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because w... J.D. ROBB I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea. BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to whi... ROBERT HARRIS The better you become as each day goes by, the more you heap dust upon you past until you completely... CONSTANCE CHUKS FRIDAY It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and com... RALPH MARSTON It was an excellent fair, it went very smoothly. We just wish there were more people to enjoy it, bu... KATHY BENNETT You can't just decide to be happy." "No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be... LEV GROSSMAN In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter... CASSANDRA CLARE He (Rowe) was a good guy. He could always make you laugh no matter what mood you were in. ALISHA LONSDALE When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could ... STEPHEN MERCHANT Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER I thought it was extremely informative. There were a lot of aspects of the department that I had no ... BLAIR BREWER The problem is that no matter how good your intentions, eventually you want to kill someone yourself... KENNETH CAIN But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, t... CASSANDRA CLARE I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what... SALLY KIRKLAND Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and ... RACHEL TUCKER I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a re... KATHY BATES I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cul... JASON SCOTT LEE My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you a... KEVIN JOHNSON There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. One... SARAH OCKLER I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take. CAROL RIFKA BRUNT No Matter how much you screw up, There is always someone who still loves you and is proud of whateve... CATERINA LING The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ... CHRISTINA ENGELA There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them ... ED KOCH It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like ... SARAH DESSEN I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing... DONALD MILLER There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the who... DAVID LEVERING LEWIS But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, a... JORGE LUIS BORGES We were very satisfied that the security was done is such a way that you could get to the data that ... JOE BURTON The only question was, [with] a new coach coming in, some new players coming in, you just didn't kno... AL WESTOVER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful yo... KATE BECKINSALE It was a good thing that I always had to go somewhere today. You were pulled here, pulled there. It ... CURTIS GRANDERSON The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you ... ROBERT WILSON I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!? -... DEYTH BANGER Sometimes no matter how hard you try, you will just not get back what you give...be who you are and ... N. S. COLE when you are broken and he has left you do not question whether you were enough<... RUPI KAUR Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just... CHOIRE SICHA Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. Y... DIANE ABLONCZY They were always some of the most successful. You could always tell Don's students. There was someth... DAVE KLINK But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this ... PAT BENATAR Back then I thought I was the unluckiest person
in the world, then I looked at you and smiled.
Why? ... OLASOT One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself... RIDLEY PEARSON I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. GALE SAYERS I love him. So much. To the point where you won’t understand. You don’t get it because I don’t... DOMINIC RICCITELLO Damage report, sir?” Skotchdopole asked, climbing off his console into his seat. “To hell w... CHRISTINA ENGELA When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, ... HENRY ROLLINS The job is the same as it always was: Weighing infrastructure and social services. You love them bot... ANNABETH SURBAUGH We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our sc... JIM BOEHEIM Love isn't all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it’s more subtle than that. BECKY WICKS Around New York, I used to hear that expression, 'Once a Dodger, always a Dodger.' But how a... TONY LAZZERI The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had t... BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no ma... LIANA LIBERATO There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to kee... MARJORIE M. LIU There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New... KELLY PRICE There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then ther... VICTORIA SCHWAB I just thought it was phenomenal. It reminded me of what an influence John was—how strong an influ... DAVID LETTERMAN The more you GIVE, the RICHer you BEcome. LORRIN L. LEE I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but t... KAMI GARCIA However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whate... MANNA FRANCIS I want to hear one more of your stories Tangle up in your dreams, give up the fight ‘Pou... BECKY WICKS New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... ... THERESA REBECK I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, ... SARAH DESSEN But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people an... TERRY PRATCHETT Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Som... BRUCE NAUMAN I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... OCTAVIA E. BUTLER I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... OCTAVIA BUTLER Nobody wanted Peerless Price more than [owner] Arthur Blank, ... No matter how hard you tried to tel... DAN REEVES A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you hav... WARREN GILES The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you... LEV GROSSMAN My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had ... ALEXA RAY JOEL It came as a tremendous shock to us. We had no idea. She was walking with a cane, she was speaking m... YOLANDA KING If you thought trying to remember someone was a toughie, give forgetting a shot. PRABHUDOSS SAMUEL the whole problem of discovering what was the matter, and figuring out what you have to do to fix it... RICHARD FEYNMAN
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Drive a different way. On your way t... NOLAN BUSHNELL I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a uniq... NOLAN BUSHNELL Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves HORACE BUSHNELL A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies traine... NOLAN BUSHNELL I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, a... NOLAN BUSHNELL The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious t... NOLAN BUSHNELL Young adults love to play games and they're thirsty for social interaction, but a lot of bar and... NOLAN BUSHNELL I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture. NOLAN BUSHNELL Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough ch... NOLAN BUSHNELL Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school d... NOLAN BUSHNELL Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. T... NOLAN BUSHNELL Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the showe... NOLAN BUSHNELL It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often sim... HORACE BUSHNELL The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. NOLAN BUSHNELL I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being ... NOLAN BUSHNELL The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. NOLAN BUSHNELL Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries ... NOLAN BUSHNELL The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that ex... NOLAN BUSHNELL These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your lif... 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