#los

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded. ↗

— Schuyler Fisk

#angeles #being #doing #even #having

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table. ↗

— Janet Flanner

#built #closer #come #crowds #dinner

Interestingly, when they are on our side, we usually refer to them as guerrillas or partisans or freedom fighters. When they, the men in the hills, oppose a government we support, we call them insurgents. ↗

— Dick Couch

#military-philosophy #freedom

Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match. Like pulling on a Missoni sweater over Trussardi slacks and Pollini shoes, you can now enjoy hybrid styles of morality. It's the way of the world -- philosophy starting to look more and more like business administration. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#morality #philosophy #society #business

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho. ↗

— John Hawkes

#angeles #austin #branded #cast #i

Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away He's a songwriter, he got something to say He says, "People in this city are too busy to hang out This town's so spread out, no one would hear you if you shout" Everyone's got a script to sell and someplace else they want to be There's always a lock that would open if you could just find the key" (It Ain't Easy Being Green) ↗

— Shannon McNally

#hollywood #hopes #illusions #los-angeles #movie-industry

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#closed #eight #hearing #hearings #held

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#every #game #go #had #highest

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco. ↗

— Megan Fox

#costco #ever #go #hollywood #i

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. ↗

— A. J. Foyt

#bad luck #cars #dad #daddy #drivers