West Coast Quotes - Page 5

• I was gonna open a gym and was in negotiation to buy the gym I was working out at. It was a small mom-and-pop and (the owner) wanted to move back to the west coast. My wife at (that) time came down with skin cancer.

  Drew Waters

  Mom, Cancer, Moving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I moved to the east coast when everybody else was going to the west coast. I (then) chased it back toward the west coast. I built my career up by doing small roles (which led) to principal roles and getting bumped into main character roles.

  Drew Waters

  Character, Careers, Small Roles

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.

  Anita Loos

  Father, Writing, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.

  Philip Larkin

  Thinking, America, East

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• I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.

  Ben Webster

  New York, Moving, Years

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Successful, Marine, Korea

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• I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Cities, Life Is Hard

  Source: collider.com

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• Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.

  Richard Cabral

  Actors, World, Crafts

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

  Murray Kempton

  Dog, New York, Cutting

  Murray Kempton (1994). “Rebellions, perversities, and main events”, Crown

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• Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

  Ben Lerner

  Firefly, California, Saws

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

  Joshua Jackson

  Ideas, Strikes, Parallel Universe

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

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• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Responsibility, Liberty, West

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

  Joan Didion

  Sky, Afternoon, Stuff

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