The cities that I go to where I can tell that they have a lot of different types of drag, I tell them that they remind me of Brooklyn, and I mean that as the highest compliment in the entire world.
Sasha Velour
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Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
Neil Diamond
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My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.
Jacqueline Woodson
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I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.
Harry Frankfurt
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My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.
Darin Strauss
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie
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As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.
R. Kelly
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I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.
Danai Gurira
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
Barbra Streisand
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My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
Jo Nesbo
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I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.
Andrew Dice Clay
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I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.
Michael De Luca
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Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
Tracy K. Smith
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In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.
Roz Chast
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Brooklyn is definitely the only place to live in the New York area. I love Brooklyn. Go Brooklyn!
Michael Pitt
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I care more about a 15-year-old queer kid in Iowa who wants to know that there's anything out there that resembles their experience and life than the hip queer person in Brooklyn.
Liv Bruce
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You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.
Don Lemon
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I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
Connie Stevens
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It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
Anthony Weiner
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We moved to Brooklyn when I was about 9 or 10, and from Brooklyn we moved to Rochester in New York. I went to high school in Rochester in New York.
Winston Duke
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I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country.
William Klein
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I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn, and I would skip class to shoot my scenes.
Paul Wesley
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In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.
Kool Moe Dee
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