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There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think ...
ROMAN COPPOLA As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT![]()
I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.
MATT KEMP I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hi...
STEVEN BOCHCO![]()
L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I t...
STEVE MARTIN I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Loui...
GABRIEL BASSO A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
NATALIE WOOD![]()
You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care o...
JENNIFER LOPEZ![]()
People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot wh...
YUNA I think L.A. has got a great lifestyle, but I love New York. You couldn't do 'Broad City'...
DARREN STAR I'm a competitive coach. I like to do things a certain way. But I like to have fun. That's why you p...
MICHELLE HOBBS You can drag something onto a page, preview it to see what it looks like, tweak it and put it into p...
JAMES RUSSELL![]()
People, when they get to that level, they always think they can do it better, ... I think I could do...
DAVID GEFFEN What I love about L.A. is that people say they're going for a hike, which just means a walk. It&...
LUCY PUNCH![]()
Do not tend to hire only people who see what you see. Such a tendency may lead to a decline in opera...
ERALDO BANOVAC![]()
Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting...
JOEL EDGERTON![]()
With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that...
JOYCE GIRAUD I can do a lot of them very badly. I had to break quite a lot of things in my office.
FRED REES It's not very often in your career when you get to see the passions and the vision and the values of...
BOB STEC Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should ...
BING GORDON Once you shave it off, you have nothing to hide behind, ... People can actually see your soul. It's ...
JOYCE AGU I know a lot of people don't believe us. I know it is bizarre. But I can't make this stuff up.
HOLLY LLOYD![]()
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consi...
GRACE MORGAN I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.
MINI GREY I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I...
HELMUT NEWTON In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Ofte...
DAVID WENHAM It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that...
ALLAN HENNESSY![]()
I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like found...
ZARA LARSSON I tend to do things I'm not supposed to and I tend to not give a fuck.
RICARDO MONTES L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good ...
TAHMOH PENIKETT You're going to see a lot of terrible, terrible evidence. A lot of terrible, terrible photos. What I...
PETER PERSAUD![]()
In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes th...
ALICE MUNRO![]()
Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I&...
SOPHIE MONK![]()
But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot the people I m...
ROBERT GOOLRICK Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a lit...
DAVID BRANDT BERG![]()
Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pre...
AMY ADAMS![]()
You don' know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking.
J.K. ROWLING![]()
Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you se...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE![]()
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration...
BEN HOROWITZ You usually have very motivated people willing to do this. It makes the process a lot easier when th...
JOAN KELLY You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down...
BRENDAN COYLE Well, when people call me real. I love it. And it has a lot of meaning, ... It means a lot to me and...
AISHWARYA RAI A lot of people in America tend to take the military for granted,
CAROLE KING People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago ar...
SEAL I had a lot of time to think about it, but didn't do a very good job planning for the move. If I had...
JOANN ANDERSON How you like to style your fencing is really up to your temperament. Some people are aggressive and ...
DION SHIVELY We have a lot of people come back after they've done their return, or we see it for the first year, ...
BOB AUGUSTINE There's a lot of subtlety. Lots of detail in the performances. People could come see it a couple tim...
JOHN HEIDER I tend to do things a bit more symmetrically. I find it more balanced and calming.
LINDA WALL![]()
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what i...
CHINUA ACHEBE![]()
It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on othe...
TERRY PRATCHETT Let's be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend ...
EVE MYLES![]()
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
ISABEL ALLENDE I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea...
KIESZA It was bizarre. It was a lot of jitters and nerves.
DUANE POSTUPACK I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of t...
ANTHONY JESELNIK I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you ...
BRIAN DIETZEN![]()
Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not v...
WHIT STILLMAN In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
NATASHA LEGGERO I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up ...
NATASHA LEGGERO I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not g...
NATASHA LEGGERO My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right n...
NATASHA LEGGERO Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedia...
NATASHA LEGGERO Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where ...
NATASHA LEGGERO When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
NATASHA LEGGERO I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
NATASHA LEGGERO What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and...
NATASHA LEGGERO I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until y...
NATASHA LEGGERO I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
NATASHA LEGGERO I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, ...
NATASHA LEGGERO Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
NATASHA LEGGERO For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them....
NATASHA LEGGERO I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
NATASHA LEGGERO Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.
NATASHA LEGGERO There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm...
NATASHA LEGGERO Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.
NATASHA LEGGERO I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dati...
NATASHA LEGGERO There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans ...
NATASHA LEGGERO Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you di...
NATASHA LEGGERO Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,'...
NATASHA LEGGERO The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
NATASHA LEGGERO My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is li...
NATASHA LEGGERO My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy &...
NATASHA LEGGERO The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk...
NATASHA LEGGERO We have a lot of little things to work on - technique - but when you are tired, you tend to be that ...
FRANK BUSCH See, that’s the thing about L.A.— When you’ve mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room ful...
KRIS KIDD![]()
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from...
PETER HOLLINGWORTH I loved the Astrodome, ... It was unique. It was a forerunner for a lot of things you see.
JOE MORGAN There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, ...
NAOMI WATTS![]()
One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about be...
PETER CAPALDI I think people are just getting bored of the clichés. And I think people are finding more and more ...
KJARTAN SVEINSSON![]()
The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure...
PETER JENNINGS You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of m...
BYRON HOWARD I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more...
MALLORY ORTBERG You have a lot of choices: the brick, the stucco. There is siding, lights, shingles. It's so complex...
SUZANNE PRIEUR![]()
People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches t...
WILLIE MAYS I love it. You don't often see kids talking like that about basketball. As a coach, you want to hear...
AHMIL JIHAD One of the things I actually learned to some extent from Doc Watson most of us hate amplification...
DOUG TRANTHAM
ROMAN COPPOLA As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT
I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here. MATT KEMP I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hi...
STEVEN BOCHCO
L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I t... STEVE MARTIN I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Loui...
GABRIEL BASSO A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
NATALIE WOOD
You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care o... JENNIFER LOPEZ
People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot wh... YUNA I think L.A. has got a great lifestyle, but I love New York. You couldn't do 'Broad City'...
DARREN STAR I'm a competitive coach. I like to do things a certain way. But I like to have fun. That's why you p...
MICHELLE HOBBS You can drag something onto a page, preview it to see what it looks like, tweak it and put it into p...
JAMES RUSSELL
People, when they get to that level, they always think they can do it better, ... I think I could do... DAVID GEFFEN What I love about L.A. is that people say they're going for a hike, which just means a walk. It&...
LUCY PUNCH
Do not tend to hire only people who see what you see. Such a tendency may lead to a decline in opera... ERALDO BANOVAC
Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting... JOEL EDGERTON
With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that... JOYCE GIRAUD I can do a lot of them very badly. I had to break quite a lot of things in my office.
FRED REES It's not very often in your career when you get to see the passions and the vision and the values of...
BOB STEC Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should ...
BING GORDON Once you shave it off, you have nothing to hide behind, ... People can actually see your soul. It's ...
JOYCE AGU I know a lot of people don't believe us. I know it is bizarre. But I can't make this stuff up.
HOLLY LLOYD
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p... SAM KEAN When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consi...
GRACE MORGAN I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.
MINI GREY I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I...
HELMUT NEWTON In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Ofte...
DAVID WENHAM It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that...
ALLAN HENNESSY
I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like found... ZARA LARSSON I tend to do things I'm not supposed to and I tend to not give a fuck.
RICARDO MONTES L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good ...
TAHMOH PENIKETT You're going to see a lot of terrible, terrible evidence. A lot of terrible, terrible photos. What I...
PETER PERSAUD
In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes th... ALICE MUNRO
Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I&...
SOPHIE MONK
But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot the people I m... ROBERT GOOLRICK Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a lit...
DAVID BRANDT BERG
Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pre... AMY ADAMS
You don' know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking. J.K. ROWLING
Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you se... MADELEINE L'ENGLE
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration... BEN HOROWITZ You usually have very motivated people willing to do this. It makes the process a lot easier when th...
JOAN KELLY You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down...
BRENDAN COYLE Well, when people call me real. I love it. And it has a lot of meaning, ... It means a lot to me and...
AISHWARYA RAI A lot of people in America tend to take the military for granted,
CAROLE KING People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago ar...
SEAL I had a lot of time to think about it, but didn't do a very good job planning for the move. If I had...
JOANN ANDERSON How you like to style your fencing is really up to your temperament. Some people are aggressive and ...
DION SHIVELY We have a lot of people come back after they've done their return, or we see it for the first year, ...
BOB AUGUSTINE There's a lot of subtlety. Lots of detail in the performances. People could come see it a couple tim...
JOHN HEIDER I tend to do things a bit more symmetrically. I find it more balanced and calming.
LINDA WALL
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what i... CHINUA ACHEBE
It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on othe... TERRY PRATCHETT Let's be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend ...
EVE MYLES
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences. ISABEL ALLENDE I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea...
KIESZA It was bizarre. It was a lot of jitters and nerves.
DUANE POSTUPACK I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of t...
ANTHONY JESELNIK I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you ...
BRIAN DIETZEN
Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not v... WHIT STILLMAN In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
NATASHA LEGGERO I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up ...
NATASHA LEGGERO I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not g...
NATASHA LEGGERO My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right n...
NATASHA LEGGERO Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedia...
NATASHA LEGGERO Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where ...
NATASHA LEGGERO When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
NATASHA LEGGERO I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
NATASHA LEGGERO What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and...
NATASHA LEGGERO I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until y...
NATASHA LEGGERO I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
NATASHA LEGGERO I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, ...
NATASHA LEGGERO Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
NATASHA LEGGERO For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them....
NATASHA LEGGERO I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
NATASHA LEGGERO Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.
NATASHA LEGGERO There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm...
NATASHA LEGGERO Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.
NATASHA LEGGERO I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dati...
NATASHA LEGGERO There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans ...
NATASHA LEGGERO Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you di...
NATASHA LEGGERO Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,'...
NATASHA LEGGERO The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
NATASHA LEGGERO My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is li...
NATASHA LEGGERO My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy &...
NATASHA LEGGERO The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk...
NATASHA LEGGERO We have a lot of little things to work on - technique - but when you are tired, you tend to be that ...
FRANK BUSCH See, that’s the thing about L.A.— When you’ve mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room ful...
KRIS KIDD
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from... PETER HOLLINGWORTH I loved the Astrodome, ... It was unique. It was a forerunner for a lot of things you see.
JOE MORGAN There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, ...
NAOMI WATTS
One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about be... PETER CAPALDI I think people are just getting bored of the clichés. And I think people are finding more and more ...
KJARTAN SVEINSSON
The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure... PETER JENNINGS You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of m...
BYRON HOWARD I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more...
MALLORY ORTBERG You have a lot of choices: the brick, the stucco. There is siding, lights, shingles. It's so complex...
SUZANNE PRIEUR
People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches t... WILLIE MAYS I love it. You don't often see kids talking like that about basketball. As a coach, you want to hear...
AHMIL JIHAD One of the things I actually learned to some extent from Doc Watson most of us hate amplification...
DOUG TRANTHAM
Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing th... 
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it di... 
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. 
I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again. 
It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye. 
I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think... 
Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under... 