Los Angeles Quotes - Page 13

• In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

  Ashley Greene

  Party, Years, Focus

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• The president Donald Trump, unlike previous administrations, has made a real commitment. That is the denuclearization of the peninsula is the mandate. That is what we are going to achieve. The president has made very clear that we're going to do everything we can to do that in a way that doesn't involve military action but has equally made clear that we're not going to stand for allowing Kim Jong-un to hold Los Angeles, or Denver, or New York at risk.

  Mike Pompeo

  Military, Real, Commitment

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• In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

  Eva Green

  Ugly Duckling, Venus, Ducklings

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• I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.

  Britt Ekland

  Home, Sweden, Britain

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• When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Kids, People, Age

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• I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

  Elton John

  Albums, Made

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• In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

  Rashida Jones

  School, Office, Done

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2009.

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• If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Growing Up, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

  Charles Kuralt

  Interesting, Important, Covering

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• I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Roles, Actors

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• I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

  Hugh Laurie

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• Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Acceptance, Thinking, Attachment

  "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Spiritual, Religious, Cousin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

  Priscilla Presley

  Redneck, Phones, Phone Calls

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• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  Ice T

  Mother, Father, Aunt

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• We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  New York, People, Priorities

  Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.

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• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

  Ville Valo

  New York, Business, Bigs

  "HIM". Interview with Erin Broadley, www.suicidegirls.com. October 12, 2004.

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• I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

  Betty White

  Zoos, Book, Animal

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

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• I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

  Betty White

  Zoos, Growing Up, Animal

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

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• I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

  Betty White

  Zoos, Book, Animal

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

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• Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

  Betty White

  Long Ago, Years, Half

  "Betty White Still A Hit, With Ever-Younger Fans". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. May 8, 2011.

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• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Dick Wolf

  Mistake, Independent, Opportunity

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• I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

  will.i.am

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Half, Kind, Johannesburg

  "Q&A: Sci-Fi Director Neill Blomkamp Describes Life in District 9 As No Picnic". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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