If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'
Annie Golden
TreeBrooklynMemoirWouldLike
It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.
Wolfman Jack
DayMeEvery DayHustleBrooklyn
It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'
Suzanne Collins
HeartTreeLonelyBrooklynAdmit
I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
Shakira
SupportClothesBrooklynLaborNever
You're at LaGuardia, and you get in a cab, and it's taking you into Brooklyn, and you're on the BQE, and you can see the skyline, the whole skyline, and it's so beautiful.
Kevin Morby
BeautifulYouBrooklynSeeGetCab
My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.
Herbie Mann
SonBrooklynNowDrummerCalifornia
After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.
Emory Cohen
MeBadBrooklynStreetWayAlways
Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
David Blaine
MotherGrowing UpBrooklynGrowing
I'm torn between wanting to connect with what I grew up with and what's available, living in Brooklyn. I don't have a grimy supermarket that decapitates frogs' heads nearby.
Awkwafina
BrooklynLivingUpConnectAvailable
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.
Theo Rossi
DayEatingBrooklynIslandPasta
I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.
Raquel Zimmermann
LoveMoneySpaceEnjoyBrooklynGet
I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.
Neil Sedaka
PeopleBrooklynPoorPoor PeopleUs
I didn't know how many independent bookstores had amazing wine lists until I toured with 'Another Brooklyn.'
Jacqueline Woodson
AmazingWineBrooklynKnowLists
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
Frank McCourt
TimeChildhoodLongBrooklynOut
If there's any credence to the guy who wrote 'Drones Over Blkyn' a year before drones were flying over Brooklyn, then listen to me: we're going to be in fascist police state.
El-P
PoliceMeFlyingYearBrooklynOver
And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
Warren Cuccurullo
New YorkMeWorldThoughtBrooklyn
I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.
Pablo Schreiber
WifeRedCityHouseBrooklynOut
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
Gary Krist
SoulMysteryBrooklynNewDepth
I represent 740,000 people who live in Brooklyn and in Staten Island. And I have to vote the way I see is in their interests and their interests only.
Dan Donovan
LivePeopleBrooklynVoteWaySee
I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.
Jimmy Iovine
WorkGreatWork EthicBrooklynWhy
I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.
Jerry Doyle
Growing UpSucceedFlyingBrooklyn
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
Robert Quine
JobSickBetterBrooklynSummerTax
I live in Brooklyn.
Ana Gasteyer
LiveBrooklyn
I didn't know exactly what a hipster was until we were in Brooklyn. It's like a species. On first seeing it, I was like, 'Oh my God, oh my God...' Pre-tt-y fun-ny.
Travis Fimmel
GodSeeingBrooklynKnowFirstLike
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