Brooklyn Quotes - Page 6

• Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

  Norman Finkelstein

  Home, Years, Jerusalem

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• The catch off Bobby Morgan
  (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson
  and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher
  were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes

  Willie Mays

  Eye, People, Saws

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• At all events there is in Brooklyn
  something that makes me feel at home.

  Marianne Moore

  Home, Events, Feels

  Marianne Moore (1968). “The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore”

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• My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.

  Maurice Ashley

  Brother, New York, Smart

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?

  Kemp Muhl

  People, Complaining, Becoming

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Running, New York, March On Washington

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I work in comedy, journalism, media, and technology, many of which don't have a lot of black faces in visible positions. I walk through Brooklyn with a surfboard. It's fun to challenge and expand people's expectations.

  Baratunde Thurston

  Fun, Technology, Media

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• A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.

  Chad Harbach

  New York, Nice, Ambition

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

  Gregory Pardlo

  Distance, Ironic, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Maybe if you live in Brooklyn, you don't need to hear that? But please, trust me, in most of America, they do need to hear it. And they're quite thankful that somebody came out and did it. For an hour and a half in that theater, for once, they're in the majority.

  David Cross

  America, Majority, Needs

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.

  Jenny Lawson

  Mother, Self Esteem, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Ghetto, Community, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.

  Trevor Paglen

  Photography, Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges

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• Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

  Theo Rossi

  Islands, Pasta, Eating

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• In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.

  Aaron Brookner

  Uncles, School, College

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.

  Alice McDermott

  Speaks Out, Interesting, Parent

  "Alice McDermott invokes a voice little heard in life or literature for 'Someone'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Mean, Thinking

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

  Britta Phillips

  School, Bucks, Pennsylvania

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Play, Rehearsing, Hard

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• My daughter lives in an apartment (hovel) in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of stairs to her door. Did I mention that she has a family of mice living under her stove? If she would promise to carry a weapon in her bag, I would never ask her to visit again. Best Mother's Day gift I could ask for!

  Kate Siegel

  Daughter, Mother, Doors

  "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.

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• The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp or Lisbon or Rotterdam, people will talk five different languages. You don't know who's who. You don't know if that guy is a banker or a mobster.

  Thomas Bidegain

  Lonely, Nice, Heart

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Even if I don't see Brooklyn I have to see Anomolisa, because it's Charlie Kaufman. No one is doing things that they should't be doing more in cinema than Charlie Kaufman. This is how I look at it: he had an incredible story that was going to resonate regardless, but just shooting that movie is too easy for Charlie Kaufman.

  Bun B

  Shooting, Cinema, Looks

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• I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell [williams], so I'm really in great hands.

  Nia Long

  Independent, Rapper, Hands

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The only one that I have to go and see is Brooklyn. I was surprised to see it get the best picture nod, but Saorise Ronan, she's very mesmerizing; she has probably the most piercing set of eyes in Hollywood.

  Bun B

  Eye, Hollywood, Piercings

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• I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You hustle, you beat the sidewalk, the pavement - audition, audition. I just started working around town everywhere. I mean everywhere - the Village, Harlem, you know. Brooklyn Academy Of Music. Just job after job.

  Jackee Harry

  Jobs, New York, Mean

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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