How You Get Famous Quotes

“For many in the audience, the attention-starved maniacs on the small Metro stage were a welcome reprieve from the bar’s regular crowd of sweaty boys eye-fucking each other from across the patio. Blindly stumbling ahead, Merrie had busted open the doors of Brooklyn nightlife and invited the amateurs in.”
― Nicole Pasulka, How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn

“[F]ew places are home to both the most experimental and the most professional. Brooklyn drag is at once amateurish and world-class, and in this way it serves as a microcosm of the art form.”
― Nicole Pasulka, How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn