Pasadena Quotes

• I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Knows, I Can

  "Astronaut Late to Signing". Sun-Sentinel, p. 2A, June 19, 1995.

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• Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

  Michael Tolkin

  Thinking, Dies

  Michael Tolkin (1995). “The Player ; The Rapture ; The New Age: Three Screenplays”, p.42, Grove Press

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• I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin

  Tobe Hooper

  Mother, Baby, Names

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• It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Ideas, Perspective, Advice

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• I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

  Anita Loos

  Men, Elk, Emotion

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moon, People, Together

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, Moving, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baseball, Cities, League

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught out at Boulder, University of Colorado. And I've taught in Europe. I've lectured and taught. I've taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nigne [sp]. I was there for a couple of weeks, I was there. I've taught all over - in Switzerland, Germany.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Couple, Europe

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, College, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.

  Joe Johnston

  Moving, People, Trying

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• It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Nyu, Transformation, Malls

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• You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  Eve Babitz

  Hurt, Art, Mean

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• I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  Eve Babitz

  Art, Games, Museums

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• I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Heart, Thinking, Hollywood Hills

  Source: collider.com

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