#iv

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#best #best friend #brooke #brooklyn #dad

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within. ↗

— Jack Dee

#being #confines #disciplined #except #having

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion. ↗

— Jack Dee

#always #been #bicycle #catch #commission

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. ↗

— Kool Moe Dee

#break #chamber #echo #era #favorite

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard. ↗

— Paula Deen

#am #american #american dream #dream #exists

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. ↗

— Joan Blades

#activist #i #more #myself #occasion

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ↗

— John Updike

#ever #innocence #innocent #knows #lives

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years. ↗

— Paula Deen

#bed #calculate #calories #consuming #did

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. ↗

— Joan Blades

#given #manifesto #motherhood #mothers #need

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. ↗

— Mos Def

#followers #freaks #me #obsessive #out