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  • I love the Lower East Side. -- David Duchovny
  • I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. -- Laura Linney
  • Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. -- Irving Berlin
  • I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually. -- Martin Scorsese
  • I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me. -- Ursula Burns
  • I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. -- Harry Mathews
  • My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York. -- James Gray
  • At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan. -- Tom Wolfe
  • I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity. -- Eddie Huang
  • I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side. -- Martin Scorsese
  • The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses. -- Susan Vreeland
  • Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you. -- Ansel Elgort
  • I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho. -- David Byrne
  • I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing. -- Joseph Kosinski
  • I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic. -- Rocky Graziano
  • I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots. -- Luis Guzman
  • The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world. -- Bryan Greenberg
  • I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took my daughter to school on the East Side, which was a lot of fun. And I admit I played Call of Duty, one of those war video games. -- Joe Scarborough
  • For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds. -- ASAP Rocky
  • I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus. -- Bobby Flay
  • I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew. -- Martin Scorsese
  • In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me. -- Spencer Kayden
  • I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York. -- Liev Schreiber
  • I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side. -- Kelly Rutherford
  • We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool. -- Harry Elfont
  • I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side. -- Moby
  • My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. -- Gregory Corso
  • I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side. -- Rick Riordan
  • Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic. -- Camille Paglia
  • That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho. -- Daniel Boulud
  • Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told. -- Harpo Marx
  • I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square. -- Harry Golden
  • If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away. -- Rick Riordan
  • I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City. -- Richard Price
  • I'm very boring, really: I live on the Upper East Side, a block from the park. I have three kids. I go for a jog around the park every day with my dog. -- Colum McCann
  • I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old. -- Gregory Corso
  • Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really fun, trendy, funky neighborhood, and it is ripe for satire, that area specifically. -- Harry Elfont
  • Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety. -- Moby
  • In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me. -- Claes Oldenburg
  • By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork. -- Eric Drooker
  • One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead. -- Melissa de la Cruz
  • Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone. -- Goodman Ace
  • The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy. -- Jessi Klein
  • There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate. -- Moby
  • At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong. -- Jill Soloway
  • The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, and everyone around me is over 50. How interested will they be in my kind of work? -- Adam Rapp
  • In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side. -- Kate Christensen
  • When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals. -- Peter Coyote
  • Two years ago it felt novel to do the East Side and then tons of other stuff have come up set in that world, but we still liked it. It felt like people are using East Side in other shows because it is cool. -- Harry Elfont
  • I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which was downtown, in the Lower East Side - to Midtown, where the theaters are. So I got to know New York, Midtown and south. -- Stark Sands
  • My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity. -- Jacob Epstein
  • Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? -- Abraham Polonsky
  • When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within. -- Susan Vreeland
  • As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich. -- Lewis H. Lapham
  • I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career. -- Jacob K. Javits
  • Well, at least you know it works this time," she said, getting on behind him. "If we crash into the parking lot of a Key Food, I'll kill you, you know that?" "Don't be ridiculous," said Jace. "There are no parking lots on the Upper East Side. Why drive when you can get your groceries delivered? -- Cassandra Clare
  • Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of Lower East Side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles. Ira had a kid brother who wore stiff high collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls. -- Yip Harburg
  • Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips. -- Calvin Trillin
  • I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent. -- Annaleigh Ashford
  • Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. -- Knute Nelson
  • I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that. -- Edward G. Robinson
  • I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.' -- Wayne Dyer
  • I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. -- LeBron James
  • I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good. -- Lou Reed
  • Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too. -- S. E. Hinton
  • Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side. -- Mandy Patinkin
  • I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama. -- Joe Biden
  • I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home. -- Amy Carlson
  • Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side. -- David Hewson
  • Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent. -- Anthony Shadid
  • I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling. -- Joe Biden
  • I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years. -- King Louie
  • The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves. -- Joy Harjo
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