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My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.

— Bryan Greenberg

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

— Frank McCourt

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

— Robert Jay Lifton

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I grew up in Brooklyn.

— Johnny Kelly

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— Gilbert Gottfried

I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.

— Yandel

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— Jesse Eisenberg

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— Mitch Kapor

I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around the subways in my little bunhead and thinking I was so cool.

— Teri Polo

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

— Susan Sarandon

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