Los Angeles Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples’ yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

  Nick Offerman

  Cutting, Yards, Cabins

  "Nick Offerman Of ‘Parks And Recreation’ On Ron Swanson, The Cubs And, Duh, Facial Hair". Interview with Joseph Erbentraut, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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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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• I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

  Robert Redford

  Strong, Kids, Air

  “Robert Redford: What I've Learned” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2014.

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• In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.

  John C. Reilly

  New York, Play, People

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

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• If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

  Alan Rickman

  Talking, Topics, Conversation

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

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• Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.

  John Fante

  Lonely, Fog, Dust

  "Ask the Dust". Book by John Fante, 1939.

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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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• Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

  Martin Filler

  Cities, Doe, Purpose

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• Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

  John Fante

  Flower, Feet, Giving

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.3, Canongate Books

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• Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.

  James Frey

  Moon, July, Years

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• The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.

  Rick Riordan

  Entrances, Underworld

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• It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

  Truman Capote

  Redundant, Dies

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• Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

  William Faulkner

  World, Plastic, Loud

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