Los Angeles Quotes - Page 17

• I have a bit of a bucolic kind of upbringing, and so I certainly bring an amalgamation of different people that I've met over the course of my life, especially before moving to Los Angeles, so I guess my childhood was my homework in a lot of ways for Harlan County.

  Walton Goggins

  Moving, People, Childhood

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant.

  Jenna Fischer

  Office, Waiting, Temporary

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint which changes are linked to place. I believe California has made me more polite. I get a little surprised when I rediscover how direct and rude Norwegians can be.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Believe, Moving, Rude

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• I am fascinated by how images and motifs move between and adjust to different cultures. I'm a Norwegian living in Los Angeles showing a photograph inspired by Japanese image culture in an American beach town named after a sinking city in Italy.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Beach, Moving, Different

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• I don't live in Ireland, I live in London with my girlfriend; and it's because of the globalization of our planet, it's not necessary to live in Los Angeles to be a successful and any country is just an airplane ride away. If there's a director who wants to meet me or if there's something I have to do, I can just hop on an airplane - the world's small now.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Country, Girlfriend, Airplane

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings in the world. I remember reading that it was very controversial at the time - some people said even used the word "childlike drawing" - and all of a sudden I thought, "This is like Guernica in Los Angeles!" And then it all made sense to me. It was all the elements that are the Southland.

  Beth Grant

  Reading, People, Vision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

  Alice Cooper

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.

  Tom Hayden

  Supportive, Firsts, Said

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

  Ron Finley

  Motivation, Inspiration, Home

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• The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Stars, Home

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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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• 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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• Upon its debut, The Room was a spectacular bomb, pulling in all of $1,800 during its initial two-week Los Angeles run. It wasn't until the last weekend of the film's short release that the seeds of its eventual cultural salvation were planted. While passing a movie theater, two young film students named Michael Rousselet and Scott Gairdner noticed a sign on the ticket booth that read: NO REFUNDS. Below the sign was this blurb from a review: “Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.” They were sold.

  Greg Sestero

  Running, Weekend, Two

  Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell (2014). “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

  James Ellroy

  Home, Vacation, Probation

  James Ellroy, Los Angeles Police Museum (2015). “LAPD '53”, p.130, Abrams

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• There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn't even exist depending on whom you ask.

  Jennifer Beals

  Home, Sprung Up, Kansas

  Message on ourchart.com, October 16, 2008.

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• I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Vegas, Relief, Prostitution

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• Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.

  Jackie Gayle

  Air, Smell

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• Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue.

  Maxine Waters

  Strong, Night, Cities

  San Francisco Chronicle, May 01, 1992.

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• Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

  Brock Yates

  Running, New York, Moon

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• The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation is not their objective. If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon the odds are unacceptably high that that weapon will not be simply stockpiled, but it will be detonated over Tel Aviv, or New York, or Los Angeles.

  Ted Cruz

  New York, Odds, Self

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• Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

  Rob Sheffield

  New York, Stars, Inspiration

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• I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

  Joe Torre

  Successful, Unique, Ability

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• Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Speaking Spanish, People

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• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Mother, Father, Great Love

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• If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

  Paul Beatty

  New York, Sleep, Cities

  Paul Beatty (2016). “The Sellout”, p.136, Oneworld Publications

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