Sondra Radvanovsky Quotes

I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

Liverpool will always be my home.

The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

Chicago is my home. And the way Chicago sounds will always be a part of who I am.

I'll always be a Brooklyn girl.

I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven't changed.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

I am, and always will be, proud to be a Hackney girl.

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.