Smithy Sodine
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Immigrants kind of feel like they have nothing to lose.
They have to give it their all because you're displaced.
You feel displaced all the time anyway.
Like you're not...
fully from one place or the other.
So you really have to go for it because the opportunities are here.
We left there because there weren't any opportunities.
So we won't want to be here and not take advantage of the opportunities offered to us or try to really hard.
I love New York though.
I have to say, even growing up,
In Haiti, there used to be a 7-Up commercial that was filmed in Times Square.
I thought it was amazing.
I wanted to be right here in New York.
And you know how obsessed I am with New York City.
Well, yeah.
Yeah, you kind of like, once you leave here, you become a little bit more aggressive, but...
But I do like the energy of New York.
It's a really cool place.
But I had that idea.
I knew I would be New York at a very young age.