Steven Morrissey
Singer-Songwriter
"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."
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Los Angeles
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Owen Wilson
Actor
"Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
"I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts."
Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city."
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"I live in a very dangerous part of Los Angeles? it's called Los Angeles."
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"LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities."
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"Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown."
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"Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay."
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"I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel."
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"Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world."
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"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."
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"There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything."
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"It's redundant to die in Los Angeles."
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"Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan."
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"A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest."
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"Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel."
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"I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles."
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"Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet."
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"For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed."
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"We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic."
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"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us."
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"I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press."
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