Los Angeles Quotes - Page 9

• I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Islands, Years, Peaceful

  "Supermodel Carolyn Murphy on Travel Hits and Misses". Interview with Stacie Krajchir, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.

  Arsenio Hall

  Basketball, Ocean, Cities

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• After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

  Peter Vecsey

  Basketball, Earthquakes, Lasts

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• I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

  Lisa See

  Chinese, American Family

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• I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

  Lisa See

  Whole Life, Knows, Movie Business

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• Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.

  Wanda Coleman

  Perfect, Childhood, World

  Wanda Coleman (2005). “The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors”, p.7, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

  Mickey Cohen

  New York, Mazes, Rats

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• I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

  John Scalzi

  Vision, Want, Vans

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• I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.

  Hedi Slimane

  Cities, Mythology, Late

  "Johnny Depp paints nails, Herman Cain ripped over moustache, Beastie Boys go bape, and Esquire gives 'damn good advice'" by Christina Moffitino and Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 10, 2011.

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• I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

  Ryan Tedder

  Morning, Cities, Wake Up

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• The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

  Vincent Canby

  Shopping, Cheerful, Taste

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• I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Love, Age, Acting

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• Kate(Henshaw-Nuttal) was superb. The same for Stella(Damasus-Aboderin) and, of course, Jeta and Jumai(Joseph). They can work anywhere in the world. I think you can put Jeta and Stella on a plane and fly them to London or to Los Angeles to go and work.

  Nick Moran

  Thinking, World, London

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• I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

  Claire Forlani

  Vacation

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• Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You niggas ain't in the South.

  Pimp C

  Texas, Atlanta, Doe

  "Pimp C Goes Mad On ATL & Various Rappers", uproxx.com. July 24, 2007.

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• When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

  Vivica Fox

  Islands, Play, House

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 17, 2010.

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• I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

  Cobi Jones

  Years, Cities, Two

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• When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

  Phil Ochs

  Color, Tvs, Looks

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Spiritual, Cities, Circles

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• I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

  Emanuel Ax

  Loser, Has Beens

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• With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

  Joe Elliott

  Hate, Thinking, Fake

  "How to travel like a rock star". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. January 23, 2008.

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• Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

  Paul Crouch

  Journey, Germany, Made

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• I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

  Neve Campbell

  New York, Inspire, Way

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• I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

  Richard Linklater

  Boys, May, Film

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

  Mick Ralphs

  San Francisco

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