Peter York Quotes

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

Peter York

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New YorkRememberI CanNewStreet

Genius is sorrow's child.

John Adams

ChildGeniusSorrow

I win for long time. I'm champion for long time - for years.

Anderson Silva

TimeWinChampionLongLong Time

Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

Matt Taibbi

ThoughtsYouNFLGiveMischiefOnce

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

Steve Toltz

FunnyOptimismYouPersonPessimism

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

Tony Benn

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Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

Robbie Coltrane

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I don't care to read about anybody's Twitter. I don't care what you're eating for breakfast or where you just went. For me, it's mainly just to connect with my supporters and the people who are showing a mad amount of love.

Roman Reigns

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Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

Roy Clark

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I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

Jorja Fox

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Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

Donald Faison

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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

David Whyte

PoetryFierceWholePracticality

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

Chris Van Allsburg

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