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I was born in Manhattan, raised in Queens, went to high school and college in Brooklyn. My father was a city cop for over 30 years. To me, New York values are being patriotic, being strong, not panicking when there's a crisis, and trying to help each other out.
Peter T. King
Me
Strong
School
Father
Values
College
Other
Crisis
Out
High
City
Brooklyn
Born
High School
High School And College
Over
New
Queens
Years
Trying
York
New York
Being
Manhattan
Patriotic
Help
Being Strong
Each
Cop
Raised
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
Other
Hood
Though
Rappers
Brooklyn
Shared
Came
Chicago
Up
Same
Common
Grew
Common Ground
Biggie
Worked
Ground
Even
I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
Richard Parsons
Life
Work
You
Together
Peace
Three
Fighting
Everybody
Brooklyn
Constantly
Brother
Know
Well
Make
Making
Up
Sisters
Child
Trying
Middle
Grew
Storm
Means
Your
Play
I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.
Richie Havens
Music
Time
People
Trouble
Singing
Neighborhood
Out
Brooklyn
Purpose
Also
Another
Came
Passport
Lot
Up
Served
Keeping
School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Robert C. Merton
Work
Music
Mathematics
Me
School
Passion
First
Important
Favorite
Brooklyn
League
Although
Dodgers
Were
Subject
Intellectual
Lot
Up
Arts
While
Little
Sand
Rooted
Interests
Little League
Fun
Baseball
Growing
Growing Up
Played
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
Better
Job
Sick
Summer
Drank
Bookstore
Way
Brooklyn
Through
Got
Than
Stopped
Tax
Which
Little
Then
Strand
I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.
Rosie Perez
Brooklyn
Until
Left
Appreciate
I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I did live part-time with my aunt in Brooklyn.
Rosie Perez
Time
Care
Live
State
Though
System
Brooklyn
Some
Part-Time
Aunt
Did
Quite
Quite Some Time
Ward
Then
Initially
Even
Foster
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
People
Holding
Sidewalk
Brooklyn
Catch
Feel
Up
Wheel
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.
Rudy Giuliani
Family
Me
Revenge
Mother
Fans
Father
Live
Brooklyn
He
Make
Because
Dodger
Yankee
Were
His
Surrounded
Fan
Required
Who
When my husband and I first became parents, we joked that our chubby baby was destined to grow into an Alex P. Keaton Reaganite - the most unlikely, and therefore hilarious, course for the child of an interracial gay couple in gentrifying Brooklyn.
Rumaan Alam
Gay
Husband
Parents
First
Hilarious
Baby
Chubby
Our
Unlikely
Destined
Brooklyn
Most
Couple
Course
Became
Child
Therefore
Keaton
Grow
Alex
Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn as she dined with her husband/boyfriend/whatever.
Rumaan Alam
Woman
People
Phone
Rude
Dinner
Reading
Once
Saw
Dined
Brooklyn
Checking
She
Than
Blue
Which
Ribbon
Your
Less
Her
There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded.
Sandrine Holt
Me
Think
Toronto
Brooklyn
About
Something
Reminds
Because
I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn.
Sasha Velour
Brooklyn
Ambassador
Want
'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.
Spike Lee
Chapter
Summer
Hook
Brooklyn
Red
Another
Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn. I didn't know him growing up, but once he became heavyweight champion, I knew him then.
Spike Lee
Life
Champion
My Life
Met
Once
Tyson
Complex
Brooklyn
Both
He
Knew
Since
Know
Most
Him
Known
Became
Up
Person
Heavyweight
Heavyweight Champion
Then
Mike
Mike Tyson
Growing
Growing Up
Ever
Brooklyn just got that energy to me that's so hip-hop and so New York City. You know, New York City is the grittiest city in the world.
Statik Selektah
Me
You
World
Energy
City
Brooklyn
New
Know
Got
Hip-Hop
York
Just
New York
New York City
I wouldn't say 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is a really 'delicate' show. I would probably use a word more like 'zany.'
Stephanie Beatriz
Word
Say
Would
Brooklyn
More
Delicate
Like
Really
Use
Show
There are lots of different sides to Brooklyn. It has so much character.
Stephanie Beatriz
Character
Sides
Brooklyn
Lots
Different
Much
Different Sides
I wanted to be a cowgirl... But, you know, it was pointed out to me that, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn't much opportunity... for cowgirlery.
Susan Isaacs
Me
You
Opportunity
Out
Brooklyn
Pointed
Know
Up
Wanted
Much
Growing
Growing Up
What I say is that there's this culture and this vibe and this community in Brooklyn that's so amazing and wonderful, and it has influence on the world. That's the part of Brooklyn that I love and I begin to miss.
Susan Kelechi Watson
Love
Culture
Wonderful
World
Amazing
Community
Say
Brooklyn
Part
Miss
Begin
Vibe
Influence
I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short story, but it's such an incredible short story.
Suzanne Collins
You
People
Tree
Incredible
Later
Draw
Pretend
Brooklyn
Castle
Adult
Name
Read
Around
Always
Lottery
Die
Short
Loved
Short Story
Story
Which
Lived
Grows
Brings
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.
Theo Rossi
Day
Single
Every
Brooklyn
Eating
Single Day
Island
Pasta
Being
Used
Every Single Day
I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.
Theophilus London
Music
Time
Age
First
Year
Stage
Once
Once A Year
Brooklyn
About
New
Performing
Fair
First Time
York
New York
Lived
Thing
Started
Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.
Theophilus London
You
Better
Corner
Brooklyn
Pretty
Look
Him
Around
Boy
Always
Gotta
Up
Than
Where
Grew
Competitive
I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga's hair, but he fired her to work for me.
Theophilus London
Work
Me
Hair
Brooklyn
Fired
He
Mister
Personal
Lady
Gaga
Cut
Barber
Used
Lives
Travels
Her
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