Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.
I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.
There is something about Dior that reminds me of New York City Ballet. They both have a classic, glamorous basis but are trying to evolve the arts in new and innovative ways.
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?
While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.
The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.
I've lived in New York state almost my entire life, so my votes never count.
New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.
The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in New York under the state's own laws as well as under the U.S. Constitution.
In some states, the attorney general is appointed, but in New York state it's an independently elected position. The New York attorney general has an obligation to the people first, to her conscience and to the rule of law, not to the governor, and not to the legislature.
New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'
My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.
Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.
I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.
I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New York State said we could. From the outside, our family - two dads, two sons via adoption - seems like an experiment, but what family isn't an experiment?
Everything I do is in a New York state of mind. I'm indebted to preserving the sound of the city.
Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.
When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.
