Los Angeles Quotes - Page 27

• I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

  James Franco

  Teaching, Ucla, Years

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• I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.

  Stephen Daldry

  Silly, Awards, Hands

  "Stephen Daldry: 'Hollywood? I've never even been there...'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

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• All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.

  Ralph Kiner

  Funny, Stupid, Winning

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• I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Spring, Enjoy, Palms

  "Actress dreams of Rome — and eating at Sonic". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 6, 2011.

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• I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

  Nathan Fillion

  Great Day, Stories, Actors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.

  Donal Logue

  Thinking, Different, San Diego

  "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview Terriers". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hiking, Relaxed

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Los Angeles is a city known as much for its sun as for its stars and its dirty air.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Stars, Dirty, Air

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town.

  Ian Shoales

  Taken, Angel, Cities

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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• Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

  Della Reese

  Church, Principles, Pastor

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• Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

  Schuyler Fisk

  Mom, Who I Am, People

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• Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.

  Joan Didion

  Believe, August, People

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.30, Zola Books

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• In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.

  Matthew Perry

  Beautiful, Kids, Hands

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• Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Color, Green, Said

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• Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

  Jodie Foster

  Mother, Kids, Appreciate

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• I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

  John Larroquette

  Careers

  "10 Questions With John Larroquette". Interview with Stacy Jenel Smith, www.aarp.org. March 17, 2011.

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• The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.

  Sean William Scott

  Minnesota, Road Trip

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• I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote "The Rose," and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

  Amanda McBroom

  Writing, Ideas, Rose

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

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• Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

  Norman Mailer

  New York, Cities, San Francisco

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.83, Random House

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• I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Blessed, Winning

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• The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Imagination, Towns, Visitors

  Christopher Isherwood (1949). “The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-diary”

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• I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

  Matthew Perry

  Player, Tennis, Ottawa

  "Man to Man: Matthew Perry". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. September 11, 2012.

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• We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Community, Want, Helping

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• success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Next Day, Smell, People

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• I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

  Tessa Thompson

  East, West Coast, Splits

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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