Jesse Ball Quotes

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

There is a difference between Mumbai wali Urvashi and Delhi wali Urvashi, and there is no place like Delhi on this earth.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

New York City has always had more in common with Paris or London than with Cincinnati.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

Having lived in a big city like Mumbai, I feel it gives you another personality in a way.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.