Los Angeles Quotes - Page 33

• Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Home, Nursing, Self

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities.

  Ryan McPartlin

  School, College, Illinois

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

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• I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

  Kate Mara

  Football, New York, Hate

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

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• Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown.

  John Carlos Frey

  America, Venice, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Mean, Blue, Shining

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• A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Gentleman

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• Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Rama, Life Living

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• I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Years, Smell

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• Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.

  Kris Kidd

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• In Los Angeles, everything is 100 percent organic, except the people.

  Kris Kidd

  People, Percent

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• My problem with L. A. was that I could see the air I was breathing, I don't particularly like crowds, and I was much better at snowboarding than I was at surfing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Air, Snowboarding, Breathing

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• In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Summer, Night, Order

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• I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

  Blake Lively

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

  Pete Wentz

  Train Wrecks, People, Creative

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• The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.

  Steve Martin

  Phones, Creating, Acting

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• If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.

  Robert Redford

  Funny, California, Long

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• Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.

  Steven Levitan

  People, Different, Midwest

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

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• I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

  Paul Goldberger

  Atlanta, Cities, Denver

  "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

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• I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

  Cat Power

  Men, Moved

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

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• The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Husband, Hippie

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• I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.

  Terry O'Quinn

  Cities, My Favorite, Favorite City

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• I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.

  Connie Nielsen

  Gun, Fbi Agents, Portland

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

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