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I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it’s a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.  (East Side Quotes) I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn’t going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing  (East Side Quotes) I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus  (East Side Quotes) I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we’ve gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots  (East Side Quotes) Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly  (East Side Quotes) In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: ‘I can’t perform anymore!’ I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I didn’t perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called ‘Gilda Defying Gravity,’ and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me  (East Side Quotes) For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin’ down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I’m from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds  (East Side Quotes) Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too  (East Side Quotes) One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead  (East Side Quotes) I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away  (East Side Quotes) I’m tearing down Route 80 East, the sun’s on my right side. I’m drunk, but my vision’s good  (East Side Quotes) I’m a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me  (East Side Quotes) I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic  (East Side Quotes) I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That’s where my roots are at. I’ve been over east for more than ten years  (East Side Quotes) I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which was downtown, in the Lower East Side - to Midtown, where the theaters are. So I got to know New York, Midtown and south  (East Side Quotes) Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o’clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety  (East Side Quotes) There’s not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate  (East Side Quotes) I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.  (East Side Quotes) When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.  (East Side Quotes) I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.  (East Side Quotes) I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually  (East Side Quotes) Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life  (East Side Quotes) I’m a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side  (East Side Quotes) I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches  (East Side Quotes) Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic  (East Side Quotes) I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. and six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability  (East Side Quotes) Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi  (East Side Quotes) By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork  (East Side Quotes) What I did with his automobile was fairly dramatic and somewhat risky, but still a lot easier than finding a parking place on the Upper East Side  (East Side Quotes)
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