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Of all the Christbitten places in the two hemispheres, (Los Angeles) is the last curly kink in the pig's tail.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'
— Jane Levy
I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.
— Miguel
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
— Natalie Massenet
The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.
— Swoosie Kurtz
Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.
— Jennifer Harrison
One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.
— Ellie Kemper
The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.
— Dave Foley
Los Angeles signed a pact with the devil and lost its soul a long time ago, you know? It flourishes, but it's doomed.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.
— John Lennon
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
— Flea
When I saw a sign on the freeway that said, "Los Angeles 445 miles," I said to myself, "I've got to get out of this lane."
— Franklyn Ajaye
BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.
— Andy Kindler
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
— Tom Brokaw
The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
— Jack Kerouac
What does she do?"
"She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race. — Julian Fellowes
"She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race. — Julian Fellowes
I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.
— Craig Ferguson
If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course ... Real estate values go 'boom!'
— Adam Carolla
Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.
— Warren Ellis
The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury.
— Gary Snyder
In Los Angeles, windows separated the dogs from the bitches.
— Pepper Winters
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
— Edward Ruscha
What's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.
— Bret Easton Ellis
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
— Alex Cox
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.
— Julie Benz
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
— Emily Mortimer
Life is what you make it. Unless some guy finds you with his girl. Then the ball's pretty much in his court.
— Lois Greiman
I've been a California girl all of my life and have spent much of it on the many highways that intersect all over Los Angeles County.
— Nancy Isaak
Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I finally triumphed.
— Donald O'Donovan
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
You chippy hunk of shit,/don't bad mouth me! I'm/the toughest guy in town, you don't know/who the hell you're in this room/with!
— Charles Bukowski
Los Angeles is an amazing city to live in, but the traffic is unbelievable. It's overwhelming at times. It's the source of a lot of frustration.
— David Sutcliffe
The Doors formed on the beaches of Los Angeles, in what you might imagine is the tradition of local rock bands since the Beach Boys.
— Steve Erickson
Things do change and, unlike the Middle East and the traffic in Los Angeles, sometimes they can even get better.
— Jeff Kahn
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
— Jeffrey Deitch
Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.
— Steve Erickson
I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.
— Carly Rae Jepsen
I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.
— Anna Nicole Smith
In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.'
— Bruce Eric Kaplan
When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
— Kym Whitley
I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.
— Paul Fleischman
If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.
— Monika Chiang
Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy.
— Lauren Conrad
New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
— Ellie Kemper
Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.
— Maggie Grace
Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.
— Jonathan Culler
I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.
— Tony Hawk
The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
— James Gray
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
— Henry Rollins
In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
— Ellie Kemper
I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.
— Joan Juliet Buck
Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same.
— Lois Greiman
The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.
— Mike Leigh
Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.
— Michael Ritchie
I love Thanksgiving turkey ... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.
— Dave Keuning
Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
— Paul Goldberger
She used to attend services at Angeles Temple, in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles.
— David J. Branch
Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!
— Milton Berle
There's nothing quite like the sound of chainsaws over morning coffee.
— Michael P. Naughton
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne — Laurie Stevens
Michel de Montaigne — Laurie Stevens
Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
— Rick Riordan
Tip the world over and everything loose falls into L.A.
— Linda Sunshine
Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.
— Ross Macdonald
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
— Glenn Frey
Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music.
[Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990] — Igor Stravinsky
[Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990] — Igor Stravinsky
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.
— Dan Castellaneta
In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.
— Victor Papanek
Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.
— Lykke Li
Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.
— Erwin McManus
I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.
— Matthew Specktor
Los Angeles can never be convinced to fight fair, but the town has an insidious way of tempting back its most devoted followers.
— Jennifer Harrison
When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
— Lorna Luft
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
— Rush Limbaugh
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
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
— Tommy Lasorda
San Diego has the finest zoo in America, but the Los Angeles Zoo is not much more than a home for retired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lions.
— Vincent Price
I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
— Brenda Blethyn
Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.
— Beeban Kidron
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
The few heroic sluts on this great working-girl turf
— Christopher Hitchens