Los Angeles Quotes - Page 34

• I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.

  Michael Feinstein

  Ohio, Years, Piano

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown.

  John Carlos Frey

  America, Venice, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Mean, Blue, Shining

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• If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.

  Robert Redford

  Funny, California, Long

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• The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.

  Steve Martin

  Phones, Creating, Acting

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• I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

  Pete Wentz

  Train Wrecks, People, Creative

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• The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

  Blake Lively

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Summer, Night, Order

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• Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Home, Nursing, Self

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• My problem with L. A. was that I could see the air I was breathing, I don't particularly like crowds, and I was much better at snowboarding than I was at surfing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Air, Snowboarding, Breathing

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• In Los Angeles, everything is 100 percent organic, except the people.

  Kris Kidd

  People, Percent

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• Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.

  Kris Kidd

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Years, Smell

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• Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Rama, Life Living

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• A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Gentleman

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• When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.

  Julian Sands

  Soccer, Football, Zoos

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• I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

  Edward Ruscha

  Cities, People, Mind

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

  Edward Ruscha

  Taken, California, Knowing

  "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

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• There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.

  Matthew Rhys

  Unique, Missing, Wales

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• I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

  Matthew Rhys

  Thinking, People, Towns

  "Matthew Rhys on Brothers and Sisters". Interview with Neil Midgley, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 21, 2010.

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• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  Karrine Steffans

  New York, Home, Average

  "Former 'Video Vixen' Talks Sexuality and Power". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 9, 2007.

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• I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Land, Voice, Sound

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• I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.

  Eleanor Mondale

  College, Eight, Years

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