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“There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.”

People Ifs Mind Bigs Turns Walks Nice Fans Streets Paper Hollywood Yeah Sorry Come Up Excuse Bother Aunt Up To You Excuse Me Boulevard

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I dont think theres a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.”

Thinking Streets Hollywood Quarters French Quarter

Author:Glenn Danzig

“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.”

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Author:Dorothy Parker

“Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.”

Feels Streets Confidence Walking Hollywood Togetherness Walking Away

Author:Robin Wright

“Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.”

“It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.”

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Author:Oliver DeMille

“When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.”

Knows Firsts Shows Names Know How Streets Middle Decided Hollywood Routes

Author:Bonnie McFarlane

“I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.”

Thinking Giving Black Voice Streets Losing Hollywood Selling Staying Neighborhood Giving In Selling Out

Book:Black Is the New White

Source: Black Is the New White

“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.”

Streets Hollywood

Book:Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.”

Love Born Sin Streets Youth Hollywood Tired Tone Tunes Empires Timeless Midnight Blades Maids Razors Tin Smitten

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.”

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Author:Buster Keaton