West Side Quotes

• The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mountain, West, Sides

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• Wassup dear? Sup babe? What street you by? On 5th Bout to hit the West Side High

  Slick Rick

  Rap, West, Sides

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• I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Dad, Oklahoma, Cities

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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• In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

  Luther Allison

  Two Sides, Chicago, West

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• An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

  Howard Cosell

  New York, Cities, Games

  "Monday Night Football", December 08, 1980.

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• Josh, my question to you is why you ran against a Republican and spent $100,000, wasted $100,000, that could have been spent on the west side of the state getting us a majority in the House of Representatives, especially since, at least in two of those swing districts we probably could win with that $100,00

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Winning, Swings

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• Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

  John Lahr

  Dream, Car, Age

  "Turf Wars". www.newyorker.com. March 30, 2009.

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• I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.

  Richard Beymer

  Smart, Character, Guy

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• I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

  Alan Furst

  West, Sides

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• Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She's walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she's out of her mind, drunk.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Morning, Thug, College

  "I was followed, harassed, and ambushed by Bill O’Reilly’s producer". thinkprogress.org. August 2, 2006.

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• With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

  Joe Scarborough

  Home, West, Sides

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• I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

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• Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

  Steve Vai

  Attitude, Emotional, Energy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.

  Steve Vai

  Impact, Eight, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Mean, Two

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Book, Reading, East

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• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Thinking, Idols, Play

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• I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

  Adam Sandler

  Mom, Mother, Sleep

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• People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

  Christine Quinn

  Winning, People, Manhattan

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• Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

  S. E. Hinton

  Real, Sunset, East

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• ... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Memories, Rap, Loss

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.256, Vintage

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• They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.

  S. E. Hinton

  Hate, West, Sides

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.115, Penguin

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• Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, West, Fool

  Song: California Love

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• In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

  John Lahr

  Goodbye, Sweet, Dark

  "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.

  Lea Michele

  Play, Forever, Different

  FaceBook post by Lea Michele from Oct 16, 2011

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