Shenae Grimes Quotes

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

I don't like Philly. I don't care at all about Philly.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

I never particularly liked it in New York City.

I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?

I hated L.A., so spread out, so phony. It's like Vegas. It isn't real.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.

I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.

I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it's actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love the way it looks. I love the geography. I love the diversity.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

I think L.A. has got a great lifestyle, but I love New York. You couldn't do 'Broad City' in L.A. because L.A. is a much gentler place. The standard of living is so different.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

I don't like concrete jungles.

New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

Good and bad make up a city.

I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know, when I'm writing about rush hour or Central Park, it's not a black Central Park, it's just Central Park, and it's not a black rush hour, it's just rush hour.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.