"New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world."
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"There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option."
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"It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue."
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"If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver."
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"Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous."
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"Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him."
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"We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group."
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"I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about."
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"Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame."
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"The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth."
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"It's hard to be a saint in the city."
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"My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins."
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"Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying."
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"A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy."
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"Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself."
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"The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism."
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"Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart."
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"When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first emerged in city/states known now as Greece. This was coming from a society in which 30 thousand citizens had rights and 300 thousand were slaves and citizens without rights that lived in this territory. So that was the concept of western democracy; some citizens had the prerogative of exerting their civil and political rights while the others had none."
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"The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around."
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"Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for."
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