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I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.


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When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
Jared Kushner
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
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We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.
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I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.


Joanna Garcia
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I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
George Kennedy
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Home is New York.


Liev Schreiber
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I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.
Edith Widder
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I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.
Jess Walter
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I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
Gene Tierney
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I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.


Vanessa Ferlito
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I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie.
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As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
Grace Meng
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I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.
Casey Neistat
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My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.


Mili Avital
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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.


Marilyn French
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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.


Ben Jonson
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.


Anatole France
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I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.
Steven Tyler
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I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.
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