My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!
Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.
I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
Holding true to what you believe - even in a big city - is so important.
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
I wouldn't say that a big family is for everybody, and I've brought my kids, for example, to New York City, and I can tell you it's much harder to raise that number of kids in a city like New York than it is to raise them in rural Wisconsin where I live.
I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.
In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
In 1953, the idea of a single female police recruit to the New York City Police Department, let alone a handful, was big news.
Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
Houston is just where the whole swag comes from, the culture. We have some of the most legendary groups and people coming out the city. I know I have big shoes to fill because these people are legends. I don't want to disappoint the city.
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That's one of the biggest things it's got going for it.
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.
