New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

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If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

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Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

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If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

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There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angles.

Neil Simon in Playboy (February 1979)
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Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

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Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

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Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

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