Greenwich Quotes - Page 1

I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Steve Young / Football Player
Connecticut
Greenwich
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I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Yancy Butler / Movie Actress
Dad
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Lennon
Village
John
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
Weegee / Photographer
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Village
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My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
Gregory Corso / Poet
East
East Side
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Village
West Side
Background
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I never even went to Jekyll & Hyde's restaurant. I loved the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, though.
Alexandra Daddario / Actress
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Halloween
Hyde
Village
Loved
Parade
Restaurant
Though
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Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Village
Twenty
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My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City.
Nobu Matsuhisa / Chef
De Niro
Greenwich
Hotel
New York City
Business Partner
Niro
Opened
Partner
Robert
Robert De Niro
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I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.
Chris Pavone / Writer
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
New York City
Village
Home City New
Rarely
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After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.
Nigel Hamilton / Biographer
Greenwich
Secondary School
Opened
Secondary
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I just try to be the same kid from New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, who is just lame and watches TV and Netflix.
Donovan Mitchell /
Connecticut
Greenwich
Lame
Watches
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To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.
Molly Ivins / Columnist
Assuming
Connecticut
Greenwich
Mistake
Texas
West
Equivalent
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I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.
Roger Mcguinn / Musician
California
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Liverpool
Sound
Village
Came
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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
Carly Simon / Singer-Songwriter
Sister
Dresses
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Looks
Lucy
Matching
Singing
Village
Simon
Wore
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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
Yochai Benkler / Author
New York
Children
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
September
Village
World
World Trade
World Trade Center
Center
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Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.
David Amram / Composer
Black And White
Gorgeous
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Portraits
Series
Village
Wonderful
Became
Hang
Landscapes
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
Roger Mcguinn / Musician
Imagination
Folk Songs
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Mixing
People
Song
Village
Beat
Developed
Folk
For The People
Taking
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Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.
Tom Folsom / Writer
Beatnik
Bloody
Charismatic
Dylan
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Inspired
Mafia
Revolution
Village
Against
Ballad
Bob Dylan
Gangster
Celebrated
Joe
Whose
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In 1981, when he ran for governor, I confiscated the needlepoint belts of New Jersey's Tom Kean. It's a patrician look that is right for the Vineyard, Nantucket, Darien, Greenwich, Charleston and Savannah.
Roger Stone / Political Consultant
Belts
Charleston
Greenwich
Jersey
Ran
Savannah
Governor
Tom
Vineyard
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I was born in New York, but I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - that's where I went to school. I remember begging my way into choir in the 3rd grade, because you're not supposed to get in until 4th grade.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Begging
Choir
Connecticut
Greenwich
Grade
Supposed
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Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.
Nigel Hamilton / Biographer
Customers
Greenwich
Naval
Royal
Elizabeth
Observatory
Regularly
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We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East Greenwich. It was a small town, and so safe that we rarely locked our doors at night.
Michelle Gagnon /
Doors
East
Greenwich
Locked
Rhode Island
Small Town
Island
Primarily
Rarely
Rhode
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My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.
Blake Bailey / Writer
Boat
Father
Germany
Golden
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Law School
Mother
Nyu
Prestigious
Scholarship
School
Small Town
Village
Fresh
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I wanted to open up a stand to sell dried fruit and beef jerky where we lived in Greenwich Village. I was 8 years old. I had been flipping through TV channels and got mesmerized by this infomercial for a food dehydrator.
Neil Blumenthal /
Beef
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Mesmerized
Village
Channels
Dried
Flipping
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My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.
Gus Van Sant / Film Director
Art
Teacher
Gay
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Junior High
Radar
Subversive
Village
Voice
Life Art Man
Below
Describe
Junior
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My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
Gregory Corso / Poet
Home
War
Father
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Navy
Orphanage
Streets
Village
War Home World
Anyway
World War
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Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.
Dorothy Hamill / Figure Skater
Advantage
Beach
Beautiful
Community
Connecticut
Family Life
Figure Skating
Greenwich
Our Town
Parks
Riverside
Upside Down
Life Family Great
Beaches
Upside
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Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Dave
Dylan
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Revival
Scene
Village
Person Know Who
Biggest
Bob Dylan
Folk
Folk Singer
Singer
Van
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So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.
Steve Forbert / Singer-Songwriter
Acoustic Guitar
Assuming
Attention
Feet
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Moving
My Own
Records
Thinking
Village
Acoustic
Played
Perform
Foot
Harmonica
Material
Move On
Possibly
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We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a 'beatnik' was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists.
Richie Havens / Singer-Songwriter
Beatnik
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Hung
Village
Mostly
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You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.
Jay Mcinerney / Writer
Bankers
Bohemia
Changed
God Help
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Investment
Traditional
Village
Entirely
Journalists
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Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.
Aravind Adiga / Writer
Cities
Crazy
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Mainstream
New Yorkers
Respectable
Village
Years
Closer
Readers
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I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found.
Elizabeth Wurtzel / Writer
Character
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Hollywood
Hours
Lost
Mobile
Occasional
Psycho
Seeming
Smart
Village
Did
Banker
Star
Could
Phone
Every Day
Except
Walk
Hollywood Star
Main
Main Character
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'The Secret Agent,' Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich - in fact, a scheme by a secret police agent to stir up a government backlash - has acquired a kind of cult status as the classic novel for the post-9/11 age.
Tom Reiss / Author
Age
Government
Anarchist
Backlash
Blow
Classic
Cult
Greenwich
Novel
Plot
Royal
Secret
Secret Agent
Acquired
Agent
Fact
Scheme
In Fact
Joseph
Observatory
Status
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When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.
Christian De Portzamparc /
Architecture
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Intrigued
Mingling
Nine
Nine Months
Village
Waiter
Life Time Change
Change The World
Life Change Time
Poets
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Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.
Rod Lurie / Director
Greenwich
Roger
Thirteen
Twelve
All Day
Gathered
Newspaper
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My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.
John Updike / Novelist
Death
Aunt
Boyhood
Cosmic
Fright
Greenwich
Jokes
Land
Pages
Ulysses
Visiting
Waste
Written
Books
Came
Closely
Copy
Mysteries
Opened
Uncle
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My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there.
Mildred Dresselhaus / Professor
Bronx
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Older Brother
Scholarship
Subway
Village
Age Music Myself
Elevated
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I live in New York City, and one day many years ago I was with a poet, Gregory Corso, walking through Greenwich Village. He pointed to a doorway in an alley that he said led to a tunnel under Manhattan, a tunnel he'd use to run from the cops. I started learning about old Prohibition-era speakeasy tunnels under the city, for running whiskey.
Ann Nocenti /
New York
Running
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Manhattan
New York City
One Day
Village
Whiskey
Years Ago
Alley
Run
City
Cops
Doorway
Led
Pointed
Tunnel
York
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