The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don’t give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
I do explore the city if I have the time for it, but normally, I would rather stay relaxed at home. London can be a stressful place because it’s crowded and it’s a big city.
I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It’s not whether you’re from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.
You have to understand, now, I’m a momma’s boy. I’m from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.
There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There’s this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.
I didn’t want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
I met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner.
When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn’t like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I’d move off to some big city.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods – ‘I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.’
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.
Although I missed home, North Carolina is a spectacular place to spend four months. Wilmington has a great downtown area. It is not too small town or too big city. The people were really welcoming and nice. The weather was lovely.
This is the city of the underdog champion, so they want to see the next person out of their city blowing up and making I feel like, man, Atlanta’s a big city, but it’s so small.
You’re perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.
In states where there’s one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don’t have very many resources.
Having lived in a big city like Mumbai, I feel it gives you another personality in a way.
I think, a lot of times in a big city, you’re working even when you’re not.
People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it’s the opposite.
You grow up as an artist in a big city. As James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don’t accept people’s sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless; I didn’t have any money, and I was living in my car. I was 18.
L.A. is such a big city, and there’s so much going on. I mean, you know you’re in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.
You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.
I’ve already done things I never believed I would. Even stepping out of Northampton and being in London – London always seemed like the big city I might go to for Carnival, go for a party and a chill and then head home.
Ranchi is a much better place than Mumbai or any other big city in the country. People here are simple and open-minded.
Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.
Madrid is a big city. It’s very dynamic and cosmopolitan.
In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you’re in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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