Los Angeles Quotes - Page 11

• I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

  Jordana Brewster

  New York, Thinking, Chicago

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

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• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Way, Loser, Burrowing

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• When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

  Lorna Luft

  Opportunity, Tonight, Shows

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• I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.

  Corin Nemec

  Phones, Texas, Games

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

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• People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

  Craig Kilborn

  Sex, Years, People

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• I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Enthusiasm, Insincerity

  "'I think I'm quite good at my job'". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

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• Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

  Esther Williams

  Business, Vegas, Use

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• I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

  Bill Bryson

  Crazy, Thinking, Should Have

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.252, VNR AG

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• Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities, Beverly Hills, Hotel

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• The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Air, Hot

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.117, Penguin

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• I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

  Natalie Massenet

  School, Paris, Catholic

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• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

  Natalie Massenet

  Years, California, Degrees

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• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Kids, Lunch, Clothes

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

  Edward Ruscha

  Anxiety, Modern Life, Speed

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• So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show.

  Nicholas Lea

  Thinking, Perfect, Support

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.

  Molly Harper

  Eye, Animal, White

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  World, Membership, Gym

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• Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Missing You, Missing A Person, Persons

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• For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

  Sela Ward

  New York, Caring, People

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• If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

  Warren Rudman

  Airports, Bridges, Earthquakes

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• When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  New York, Rights, Government

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• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Kings, New York, Earthquakes

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• In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Lying, Sunshine

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• Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

  Wavy Gravy

  Whales, Example, Television

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• The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Divorce, Cities

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