It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I'm known for fashion photographs, but fashion photographs were mostly a joke for me. In 'Vogue,' girls were playing at being duchesses,… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I met Muslim immigrants in Brooklyn who were swept up in 9-11 raids, held in abusive conditions, beaten, denied rights. That's how… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx,… — Dan Rosensweig Copy Share Image
Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up.… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, the Ramones were greasers. We were Fonzie with longer hair. The greasers and gangs in Brooklyn all wore Chuck… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18,… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I guess just personally I've become a bolder person in my day-to-day. I think a lot of it came from moving to… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think… — Brooklyn Sudano Copy Share Image
I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody… — Richard Parsons Copy Share Image
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
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… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“My mother’s family were run out of their lands in Spain and fled to Mexico. My dad’s ancestors were African slaves in… — Zoraida Córdova Copy Share Image
Normally my sister, Sadie, or some of our other initiates from Brooklyn House would've come with me. But they were all at… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
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