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“I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.”

Years Country Enough Jobs Found Cold Weather Los Angeles Yellow Bugs Had Enough Cold Weather Arbors

Author:W. Richard Stevens

“I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.”

Sound Musician Bird Accomplished Los Angeles Cricket Frogs Owl Canyons Faux Rustic Critters

Author:Cliff Martinez

“Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.”

“Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles”

Inspiration Jobs Hours Cities Protest Los Angeles Mexico Mexico City

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.”

Inspirational Looks Football Los Angeles Helmet Rams Hairdresser

Author:Phyllis Diller

“There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.”

People Two Interesting Millions New York Eight Los Angeles Seventies

Author:Neil Simon

“In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and will no longer have names. Everything will become infrastructure bathed in artificial light and energy. The brilliant superstructure, the crazy verticality will have disappeared. New York is the final fling of this baroque verticality, this centrifugal excentricity, before the horizontal dismantling arrives, and the subterranean implosion that will follow.”

Years Light Names Energy Cities Crazy New York Finals Brilliant Los Angeles Artificial Urban Infrastructure Fling Horizontal Baroque Artificial Light

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.”

Source: MARTINA

“Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.”

People Feels Home Political Corruption Absence Complaining Los Angeles Feels Right Smog Political Corruption

Author:Philip Gourevitch

“The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.”

Heaven Angel Los Angeles Looking Down Dodgers

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.”

World Known Areas California Los Angeles Southern Destined Southern California Metropolitan

Author:Otis Chandler

“I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.”

Way Needs Kind School Hate Talking Students High School I Hate Sentences Los Angeles Vocabulary High School Students

Author:Eli Roth

“Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.”

Focus Dresses Los Angeles

Author:Douglas Coupland

“People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.”

People Energy Cities Los Angeles Tied New Beginnings

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.”

Choices Given Los Angeles Sydney

Author:Matthew Nable

“Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.”

Reading Politics Morning New York Television Crowds Welcome Posts Sat Opposition Los Angeles Copies Troops Prophecy Doom Melting New York Times Embedded Our Troops One Sided Quagmire

Author:Dick Morris

“I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!”

Thinking Years Play Actresses Los Angeles Plastic Surgery Old Lady Plastic Surgery

Author:Jane Elliott

“I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.”

Different Childhood Grew Grew Up Los Angeles Different Place

Author:Berkeley Breathed

“Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.”

Space Los Angeles Cradle Smog Nadir

Author:Diablo Cody

“L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town.”

Source: I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales

“Los Angeles is a city known as much for its sun as for its stars and its dirty air.”

Stars Cities Known Sun Air Dirty Los Angeles

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”

People Knows Believe Moments Community Murder Broke Tension Los Angeles Sixty Fulfilled Traveled August Paranoia

Book:The White Album

Source: The White Album

“The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.”

Left Imagination Towns Charm Los Angeles Visitors Advertisements

Book:The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-diary

Source: The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-diary

“I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.”

Years Has Beens Moments Winning Numbers Careers Involved Baseball Blessed Historical Los Angeles Awards Dodgers San Diego

Author:Steve Garvey

“Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady”

World Cities New York Los Angeles Chicago Plastic San Francisco Constellations Great American Great Cities Cities In The World American Cities

Book:Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Source: Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

“We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.”

People Firsts Bigs Cities Crazy Streets Willing First Time Towns Immigration Friendly Los Angeles Village Apartment San Francisco Parking Hamburgers Parking Lot Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:John Lennon

“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”

People Firsts Jobs Stars Rich New York Los Angeles Houston

Book:America: A User's Guide

Source: America: A User's Guide

“I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote "The Rose," and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.”

Writing Littles Ideas Happens My Own Changed Divine Singing Rose Series Clubs No Idea Los Angeles Amusement

Author:Amanda McBroom

“The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.”

Los Angeles Road Trip Minnesota

Author:Sean William Scott

“I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.”

Careers Los Angeles

Author:John Larroquette

“Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.”

Wells Kids Film Used Mother Interesting Directors Appreciate Los Angeles Take Me Exposed Really Interesting

Author:Jodie Foster

“Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.”

Persons Said Color Green Los Angeles

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.”

Years Film Next Teach Teaching Program Starting Los Angeles Graduates Next Year Ucla Nyu

Author:James Franco

“Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.”

I Can Home Honestly Los Angeles

Author:Naveen Andrews

“There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.”

People Want Shows Stuff Tvs Shots Los Angeles Loved Ones Tv Shows Going To Work

Author:Paget Brewster

“A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.”

People Thinking Los Angeles

Author:Alison Brie

“Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.”

Wells Actors Hours Directors Producers Agents Los Angeles Oh Well

Author:Julie Benz

“My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.”

Firsts Father Language Born Mom Raised My Mom Spokes Los Angeles Cuba

Author:Jencarlos Canela

“I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.”

World Found Cities Havens Around The World Los Angeles

Author:Ice Cube

“The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.”

Thinking Knows Believe Would Be Perfect Deals Fit Towns Los Angeles Stadiums Rams Expired Perfect Fit

Author:Eric Dickerson

“I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!”

Wells Los Angeles

Author:Gustavo Dudamel

“Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.”

Cities Special Los Angeles

Author:Gustavo Dudamel

“I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.”

Ideas Jobs Actors Description Los Angeles Requirements

Author:Jeff Daniels

“From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.”

World Art Transformation Los Angeles Italian Renaissance Art World Italian Renaissance

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.”

Play Shows Together Actors Father Parent Grew Mom Mets Grew Up My Mom Actresses Singers Dancer Los Angeles Show Business Show Biz

Author:Micky Dolenz

“I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.”

Looks I Can Careers Nice Grew Grew Up My Family Towns Raises Los Angeles Small Town

Author:Patrick Dempsey

“I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.”

People Years Believe Stills Book Ideas Reading No Idea Los Angeles Zero Believe In Me Intrigued Amused Less Than Zero

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.”

Want Wanted School Moving College High School Los Angeles

Author:Jenna Fischer

“I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.”

Firsts Two Jobs Crazy Newspapers Los Angeles Ads Psychics Telephones Two Days

Author:Jenna Fischer

“My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.”

Firsts Jobs Week Dresses Shops Los Angeles

Author:Paula Fox

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