"Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense."
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"I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children."
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"When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar."
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"I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood."
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"I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all."
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"The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate!"
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"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco."
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"I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life."
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"People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity."
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"I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise."
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"I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazinethat was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an officeI had to pull out."
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