Los Angeles Quotes - Page 20

• Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

  Ross Kemp

  Problem, Gang, Areas

  "Ross. Gets all gun-ho. About gangland. In LA". www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2008.

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• The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

  James Frey

  Air, Cities, Pollution Control

  James Frey (2008). “Bright Shiny Morning”, p.292, Hachette UK

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• Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.

  Rita Rudner

  Dog, Towns, Knows

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Vegetables, People, Special

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.276, Vintage

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• If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Fate, Car

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

  Gilda Radner

  Writing, Trying, Hollywood

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

  Roseanne Barr

  Done, Firsts, First Time

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• success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Next Day, Smell, People

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• Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Country, Jobs, Stupid

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

  Joan Didion

  Wind, Weather, People

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.157, Zola Books

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• In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, New York, Block

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• In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, People, Different

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

  Stella Benson

  Heart, Cities, Sophisticated

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• Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.

  Kathy Lette

  Needs, Psychiatrist

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• in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Stars, Fighting, Thinking

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Flash Fire”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?

  Frederick Lenz

  Yesterday, Atlantis, Remember

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• Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  People, Hurtful, Way

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• living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  People, Extras

  Sandra Tsing Loh (1997). “If You Lived Here, You Would be Home by Now”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Scapegoat, Nations

  Sandra Tsing Loh (1996). “Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles”, Riverhead Books

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• Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

  Carolyn Hart

  Dream, Opportunity, Sky

  Carolyn Hart (2009). “Death in Lovers' Lane”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

  Lynda Obst

  Movie, New York, Stupid

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• hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Wanted

  Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, New York, Winter

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• There was a very small crowd - minuscule compared to the crowd that he gathered later - at a private home in Los Angeles. And we were standing on the back patio, waiting for him. And he came through the house, saw me and immediately put his hand up in the Vulcan gesture. He said, 'They told me you were here.' We had a wonderful, brief conversation and I said, 'It would be logical if you would become president.'

  Leonard Nimoy

  Home, Hands, House

  "POTUS, Trekkie". Interview with Ben Smith, www.politico.com. May 8, 2009.

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• Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Chicago, Albums

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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