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.
It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
I chose to buy a house in Montauk because it has a sleepier vibe than the rest of the East End. I also felt that I would run into city people in East Hampton and wanted more of a buffer.
Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?
Carol City has its hot moments, and it has its cool moments. If you were from one area of Carol City, people didn't mess with you.
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.
