Gus Dapperton

I grew up producing hip-hop music, actually. I was producing for my friends, who were all rappers in upstate New York, where I'm from. But in the eighth grade, we had this songwriting contest in our school, and I got really excited about it and actually won. After that, I just kept making music forever.

American Musician

Daryl Hall

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Vic Mensa

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

Jasmine Cephas Jones

I've lived in the same apartment since seventh grade. It's in my name now; my mom moved upstate.

American Actress

Hamdi Ulukaya

I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.

Turkish Businessman

Vera Farmiga

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Bill Pullman

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

American Actor

Kathy Hochul

I love upstate, I love downstate, I love the whole state.

Anna Ewers

I like to head upstate to the Catskills, to Woodstock.

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Boyd Holbrook

I actually moved to upstate New York to the country.

American Model

Commonly refers to non-urban areas, hinting at quieter, less crowded places.

Regional Usage

While often used for New York, 'upstate' can describe the northern region of any state.

Not Just New York

Used to indicate travel direction towards the state's northern parts.

Travel Direction

Refers to the northern parts of a state but is not a precise location.

Specific Areas

Often associated with nature, tranquility, and escape from urban life.

Cultural Perception

The term 'upstate' is relative, depending on one's current location within the state.

Relative Location

'Upstate' is more of a general idea than an exact location - it can vary widely.

Not A Precise Term

People from upstate may have a distinct cultural identity from major cities.

Cultural Identity

Upstate can imply a close-knit community feeling, different from city life.

Sense of Community

 So you have to be there. And in my point, if you talk about immaterial art, music is the highest -- absolutely highest art of all, because it's the most immaterial. And then after this is performance, and then everything else. That's my subjective way. This institute is going to happen in Hudson, upstate New York,

An Art Made of Trust,...

 than when you managed to tick off all of your test objectives the first time through. Still, we very much wanted to see the aircraft that we'd all helped build in the air, off the ground, like it was supposed to be. And on our third high-speed testing deployment on a bitter cold morning in upstate New York,

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 very much wanted to see the aircraft that we'd all helped build in the air off the ground like it was supposed to be and on our third high-speed testing deployment on a bitter cold morning in upstate New York we got to do that for first time the picture behind me was stopped by the copilot in our chase

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 is that she lived to be 93 years old, and she didn't live just an ordinary life; uh-uh. She was standing up for the good guys. She married a younger man. She adopted a child. I'm not kidding. She lived. And I drove up to her house of freedom in upstate New York, and she had planted apple trees,

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 which is a horse rescue in upstate New York. It's this really interesting place where horses are living a life that you're not accustomed to seeing. They're letting animals live in a really different and unique way, and the animals are relating to people in a really unique way.

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 The first one, they said Saudi Arabia. There was no debate. The second one, they were actually split between Saudi and Afghanistan. What blew their mind was the first one took place in India, it was the party of a Hindu God. The second one took place in upstate New York.

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 Or, "Now I'm a professor of engineering at NYU, but actually I'm an artist." If you go upstate, you see "dinosaur." That's Syracuse. The best place to eat in Syracuse, New York, is a Hell's Angels barbecue joint called Dinosaur Barbecue.

Insightful human...

 Darrell is from upstate New York. He had read my memoir, and he was really upset about the ending. You see, I'd gotten out of the movement and he was still in. And he emailed me and he said,

My descent into...

 I took one of my most important drives of my life. I was on this road in upstate New York, trying to find this old factory. The day before, I received a flyer in the mail

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 this house upstate New York it's mostly glass but it has different shapes to accommodate the functions that the Kelly's use we wanted something very

Upstate

Regional Usage

Not Just New York

Travel Direction

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