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In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.
Jonathan Groff
Teacher
You
Song
Amazing
First
Year
Classes
Something
Could
Had
New
Named
Like
She
Because
Felt
Does
Audition
Lots
York
Artist
New York
Where
Different
Again
Room
Worked
Connect
Whole
Bars
Suddenly
Her
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
Jonathan Kozol
Today
Hope
Teacher
Prevail
Challenges
Spending
Spent
Neighborhoods
City
Area
Daunting
Retain
Between
New
Fairness
Still
Educate
Salaries
Than
Child
York
Any
Often
New York
New York City
Where
New Yorkers
Suburban
Might
Poorest
Lower
Even
Levels
'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.
Jonathan Kozol
Savage
Finance
Me
Grace
School
Amazing
Met
Thinking
Our
About
Pursuit
Lead
Had
Primarily
New
Inequalities
Dealt
Go
Line
York
Any
New York
Where
Children
Wanted
Predetermined
Ordinary
Conversations
Social
Them
Agenda
Injustices
Medical
As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.
Jonathan Kozol
Matter
Nation
Other
City
Districts
Record
Costs
Higher
Budget
New
Instruction
Schools
Within
Than
York
Any
New York
New York City
Themselves
Largest
Portion
Associated
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.
Jonathan Levine
Character
Spike
Spike Lee
City
Entire
Allen
Beat
New
Existence
Lee
Up
York
Vibe
New York
Grew
Woody
Woody Allen
Which
Informs
Movies
Really
Certain
Your
Specific
Early
I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there.
Jonathan Levine
Wonderful
Think
Definitely
City
Miss
Stuff
Longer
New
Course
Lot
Very
York
Vibrant
New York
Certainly
Help
I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot they had left was a theater class. It was so annoying, but I took it and then I thought it was the greatest thing; the most socially creative. I dropped out of school immediately and moved to New York to start acting. I was 19.
Jonny Weston
Class
Creative
School
Thought
College
Chemistry
Took
Carolina
Immediately
Out
Only
Had
Dropped
New
Most
Annoying
Spot
Greatest
South
Greatest Thing
Left
South Carolina
York
Moved
New York
Theater
Then
Acting
Fill
Thing
Socially
Start
University
Dating is hard in general, especially in places like L.A. and New York.
Jordan Fisher
General
Dating
New
Like
York
New York
Places
Hard
New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.
Jordan Peele
Alien
Cosmopolitan
About
Outsider
New
Town
Like
Fairly
Felt
Were
Woke
Mixed
Lot
Up
York
Gets
Situations
New York
Where
Growing
Growing Up
I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.
Jordana Brewster
Journey
You
Own
Everyone
Immersed
Miss
New
Anonymity
Because
Around
York
New York
I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.
Jordana Brewster
Took
Rio
Driving
New
York
Moved
New York
Bus
Subway
Need
I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.
Jordana Brewster
World
Take
Had
Driving
Weird
New
Safest
Because
Were
York
New York
Which
Really
Lessons
Thing
I have two young sons that are very interested and work in real estate. I made it a policy they need to work five years in progressively responsible jobs outside of the company, preferably in New York, and then get a masters degree, so I am making it hard for them to join.
Jorge M. Perez
Work
Real Estate
Made
Degree
Young
Jobs
Responsible
Join
Outside
Sons
New
Policy
Masters
Making
Am
Real
Years
Very
Five
Get
York
New York
Estate
Interested
Them
Then
Hard
Company
Two
Need
I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.
Jose Antonio Vargas
Government
Marriage
People
Live
Defense
State
Way
Recognize
Out
Married
Citizenship
Marry
Federal
Federal Government
New
Like
Because
Get
Hands
York
Get Married
New York
Where
Which
Straight
Straight People
Act
Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
Jose Ferreira
Today
Few
Valley
Locations
Distributed
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Boston
New
Venture
Venture Capital
Accessible
Efficiently
York
Just
New York
Capital
Far
I grew up in the small town of Greenfield Center, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks not far from the city of Saratoga Springs. It is a place I love, close to the forests and the mountains.
Joseph Bruchac
Love
Mountains
City
Small
Small Town
New
Town
Springs
Up
Forests
Close
York
New York
Grew
Center
Place
Which
Far
I went to New York, I think at the end of 2010, and did a competition called IMTA. I didn't do that well in modeling and ended up winning male actor of the year, so a bunch of agencies wanted to sign me, and I ended up moving out to L.A. in 2011.
Joseph David-Jones
Me
Competition
Year
Think
Sign
Out
Winning
New
Well
Male
End
Up
Bunch
Modeling
Did
Ended
York
New York
Wanted
Moving
Moving Out
Agencies
Actor
After the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shutdown of much of New York City by Sandy in 2012, and now the devastation wrought on Texas by Harvey, the U.S. can and should do better.
Joseph Stiglitz
Destruction
Better
Harvey
Hurricane
City
Hurricane Katrina
Devastation
New
Wrought
Texas
New Orleans
York
New York
New York City
After
Much
Sandy
Should
Katrina
Now
Orleans
I understand the New York media is a lot more magnified than most markets, but I'm up for that challenge. I'd definitely be suitable, and I'd be primed for a market like that.
Josh Allen
Challenge
Suitable
Market
Markets
Definitely
More
Magnified
New
Like
Most
Understand
Lot
Up
Than
York
New York
Media
One great thing about going to a fashion event in the morning, especially in February in New York, is that the other attendees are dressed less like models themselves. A winter coat, it turns out, is a great equalizer.
Josh Gondelman
Fashion
Great
Morning
Winter
Other
Out
Dressed
About
February
New
Like
Great Thing
Equalizer
Models
York
Going
New York
Themselves
Turns
Less
Coat
Event
Thing
I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.
Josh Pais
Live
Both
New
Mostly
York
New York
Teach
To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.
Josh Radnor
Me
Age
People
Other
Everyone
About
Only
Write
Feels
New
Deals
Bracket
York
New York
Dishonest
Story
Much
Your
Each
There are a few things for the New York actor that you hope to one day cross off the bucket list. One of them was I got to do an episode of 'Blue Bloods,' which was really fun.
Josh Segarra
Hope
Day
You
Few
One Day
Cross
Bucket
New
Got
Off
York
Few Things
List
Blue
New York
Which
Them
Really
Episode
Fun
Actor
Things
To have 'In The Heights' be my first show in New York after moving here, I remember feeling at the time like, you know, 'It doesn't get any better than this.'
Joshua Henry
Time
You
Better
Remember
First
Feeling
Heights
New
Like
Know
Than
Get
York
Any
New York
After
Moving
Show
Here
Doing a play in New York is ticking off a major, major bucket list thing for me.
Joshua Jackson
Me
Bucket
New
Major
Ticking
Doing
Off
York
List
New York
Play
Thing
I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?
Joy Behar
Time
Day
You
Every Day
Nation
Every
Everybody
Out
Magazine
New
Like
Know
Read
Times
York
New York
New York Times
Newsweek
Interests
Watching
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