A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.


Mark Zupan

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I grew up in Los Angeles, and I always wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles.
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Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.
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KEARY TAYLOR
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
A. J. BUCKLEY
When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work.
DAKOTA GOYO
Los Angeles is a bleached-out, soulless pit.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
ADAM LAMBERT
The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
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Sending out a generic resume is like a steak house that advertises its vegetarian menu. If you know ...
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what...
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[LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -] A change, ... would do you good.
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Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city
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It's a great thing for our city of Los Angeles.
FRED MATUA
I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.
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I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.
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The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused ...
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I was born and raised in Los Angeles.
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It seems to me that Los Angeles is a city filled with dreamers.
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...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte...
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I found out this morning. I have to go back (to Los Angeles) for surgery.
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I think I may just go to Los Angeles and record a little bit. But other than that I just plan to han...
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I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was...
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I was standing in the old Western Studio 3 in Los Angeles looking at record albums. I saw a Johnny R...
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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel
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Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such...
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I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be intere...
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Administrators, especially in the Los Angeles area, are notorious for not going into the classrooms ...
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Los Angeles was jump-started by the construction of the Staples Center.
MAGIC JOHNSON
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STEVEN SPIELBERG
There are so many great teams in the Los Angeles area, ... After I retired (from UCLA) and got into ...
DENNIS TAYLOR
Orange County is not Los Angeles. Orange County is newer, cleaner, safer and a better place to live....
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Had his room been facing west he would have noted the sparkling twenty-five-mile vista to the sea wh...
STEVE MARTIN
In Los Angeles, everything is 100% organic, except the people.
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[Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city...
JOHN D. MACDONALD
The old folk from Indiana and Iowa and Illinois, from Boston and Kansas City and Des Moines, they so...
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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
JACK KEROUAC
Even though I grew up two hours south, I had rarely ventured to Los Angeles. I soon learned that my ...
JUSTIN HALPERN
I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
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For the entire world, Los Angeles is a city of dreams,
BARRY SANDERS
We are making Los Angeles better one pothole at a time.
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This is a sad day for the city of Los Angeles,
RICHARD RIORDAN
Artists in Europe are really focusing on the Los Angeles art scene. For young people, Los Angeles lo...
CATHERINE GRENIER
Today we get to celebrate football in Los Angeles.
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA
The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
RICK RIORDAN
I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
ZOSIA MAMET
Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.
WARREN CUCCURULLO
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
PATRICK DUFFY
I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.
DIABLO CODY
I love that we are bringing the flavors of Frontera to Los Angeles. I think we can only add to the b...
RICK BAYLESS
[LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -] Mr. and Mrs. Smith ... 22 Birthdays.
DOUG LIMAN
In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS
We created something like a traffic map, like the Los Angeles Freeway system.
WILLIAM BOTTKE
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
EMILY MORTIMER
Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
DANA GOODYEAR
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
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To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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I got Maxwell just before we moved to Los Angeles,
CHARLAYNE WOODARD
Los Angeles is just New York lying down
QUENTIN CRISP
He was a true pioneer of Hispanic media here in Los Angeles. And he was a gutsy cameraman.
FRANK CRUZ
I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.
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People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-G...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS
I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.
ZOE KRAVITZ
I don't want it to look like a Los Angeles channel. I want it to look like a creek.
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In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City...
TAMRA DAVIS
I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
CLAIRE FORLANI
Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
LAYNE STALEY
I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.
COREY HAIM
Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.
JANICE DICKINSON
All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE
It takes an act of Congress to get a film of any size made in Los Angeles,
JACK GREEN
Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic
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I went to Los Angeles for a photo shoot. I went on 'Cold Pizza.' They did my makeup and hair.
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In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
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Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN
I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ...
MARK UDALL
I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th...
MARK HADDON
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN
As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
MARK RUTTE
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi...
MARK RYDELL
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an...
MARK MCGWIRE
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN
Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will...
MARK MCCORMACK
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
MARK TWAIN
We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN