Josh Allen Quotes

I've always lived in a city.

I'm from east London.

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.

I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world... and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. Suffice to say, it was not a garden spot.

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

I've grown up in a very diverse background.

I've lived in Boston.

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.

All my Latino side is from the Bronx.

You know, America has profoundly shaped me, and I have two American children and unbelievably rich friendships so it will always be a source of joy and good memories.