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True New Yorker Quotes By Jose Antonio Vargas

A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think. — Jose Antonio Vargas

True New Yorker Quotes By Kurt Braunohler

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished. — Kurt Braunohler

True New Yorker Quotes By Colson Whitehead

Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker. — Colson Whitehead

True New Yorker Quotes By Denis O'Hare

It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly amazing; it's incredible! The cover of 'Rolling Stone' is major. What's next, the cover of 'Vanity Fair?' When I'm in a 'New Yorker' cartoon, then I will feel like I have made it. — Denis O'Hare

True New Yorker Quotes By Michael Specter

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason. — Michael Specter

True New Yorker Quotes By Edward Rutherfurd

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. — Edward Rutherfurd

True New Yorker Quotes By Lincoln Kirstein

I mean, if you have any idea of any kind of complexity or immensity or destiny, of general order, you're put in a position of nothingness. And I think this is true. I don't think I'm anything; I never have thought that. Whatever it is that activates it is a certain kind of energy that goes on. But the effect is ridiculous; it's absurd."
--Lincoln Kirstein in "The New Yorker — Lincoln Kirstein

True New Yorker Quotes By Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My confidence that there is a loving God who cares at all for your health or your longevity, based on what I see in the physical universe, is so low that it's not something that I would spend any time investing in, to try to explore any further about whether or not it's true. I'll let other people do that exploring."

Read in the New Yorker, sometime in March, 2015 — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

True New Yorker Quotes By Stephen Malkmus

The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling. — Stephen Malkmus

True New Yorker Quotes By Heather Thomson

A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla! — Heather Thomson

True New Yorker Quotes By Blythe Danner

I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching! — Blythe Danner

True New Yorker Quotes By John Updike

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. — John Updike

True New Yorker Quotes By David Rakoff

I come by my alarmism honestly. I have learned this custom over the years as I have settled into being a true New Yorker. This is how we welcome foreigners to our shores. Because we are so often frightened by living here, we are annoyed and offended when visitors fail to show the proper signs of terror. So we try to scare the living daylights out of them. — David Rakoff

True New Yorker Quotes By Chris Diamantopoulos

You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker. — Chris Diamantopoulos

True New Yorker Quotes By Pete Hamill

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. — Pete Hamill

True New Yorker Quotes By Robert Moses

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life. — Robert Moses

True New Yorker Quotes By James Wood

Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking. — James Wood

True New Yorker Quotes By Sophie Kinsella

I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe?
Or maybe just the gym will be enough. — Sophie Kinsella

True New Yorker Quotes By Josh Kilmer-Purcell

New York doesn't leave a lot of time for pondering forks in the road. People who have paused to gather their wits often find themselves suddenly waking up in a cookie-cutter beige apartment in Hoboken. I will not ever leave New York. I don't know how long it takes to become a true New Yorker, but I assume that if I die here ... that would qualify me. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell