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Uptown Quotes

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

Andy Warhol
People, Uptown, Downtown

No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.

Kreesha Turner
Class, Uptown, Downtown
Source: www.thefader.com

I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.

George Carlin
Thinking, Crossing The Line, Uptown

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fun, Block, Uptown

[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.

Viola Davis
Uptown, Mars, Sometimes
Source: www.elle.com

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

Robert Rauschenberg
Years, Batteries, Uptown

Uptown living, you've got to call 911. Where I am, I am 911.

Phil Robertson
Uptown

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Loretta Lynn
Country, Uptown, Proud
Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.11, Vintage

Let me tell you something 'bout these rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir.

Ruta Sepetys
Soul, Gone, Uptown
Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.54, Penguin

Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.

Cassandra Clare
Uptown, Way, Next
Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

Ana Ortiz
New York, Cities, Uptown

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

Laurieann Gibson
Artist, Uptown, Passionate
"Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

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