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Related I live in L.A. - I love L.A., first off - but I didn't realize how much better the air quality w... EMMA BELL I used to be more of a sporty girl. I love outdoor activities. I haven't been doing much since l... LANA PARRILLA I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, ... HANNAH SIMONE I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jer... GERARD WAY I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network sh... DAMIAN LEWIS Charlotte is a very interesting place - I'm Canadian, but I've lived in Toronto, Vancouver, ... DIEGO KLATTENHOFF I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne... STEWART BUTTERFIELD I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, ... DALLAS ROBERTS I'm so proud of this show and I'm really stoked that fans were so enthusiastic about the sho... WILLA HOLLAND I guess my first big break was getting the hit show 'Cavemen' on ABC. People made fun of it,... NICK KROLL The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching t... ADELINA SOTNIKOVA I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A... HARRY TREADAWAY I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... BILL GOLDBERG Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody ag... ANA DE ARMAS Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit ob... JORDAN GAVARIS I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year ... DREW CAREY Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers an... JAKE JOHNSON I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from arti... M. WARD I've seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I ... BRANDON JAY MCLAREN When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.... GINNIFER GOODWIN I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better,... YANDEL I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a... ALBERT BROOKS I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my song... RANDY NEWMAN Had I started anywhere else but Vancouver I would not be here tonight. BRYAN ADAMS 'Fukrey' was a major turning point of my career because it was post this film that I started... ALI FAZAL I get recognized a bit more. Plus, I'm getting some opportunities to do some things that I probably ... DANIEL DAE KIM I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actr... AMANDA DONOHOE It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different... KELSEY CHOW When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and n... VICTORIA BECKHAM Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the wome... ANGIE DICKINSON My friends said I was crazy, but L.A. is the hub of the industry. It's the epicenter of the busi... RICKY WHITTLE I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that pers... CARLA GUGINO 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 Then I started swinging around the hip injury and started hooking the ball 30, 40, 50 yards. I remem... JESPER PARNEVIK I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn'... AMANDA SEYFRIED I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting b... CORY MONTEITH My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn... SAM DONALDSON I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ... BEN SCHNETZER I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I pr... KAY CANNON I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that... NAT WOLFF I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Fran... AVAN JOGIA I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other plac... DAVE SITEK I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doi... ADAM ANT I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.... PEDRO PASCAL I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was... LAMAR ODOM The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happe... JOE ROGAN In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. la... BECKI NEWTON Obviously, this is special. I feel perhaps I didn't get the opportunity I deserved in L.A. So it's n... ALEJANDRO MORENO I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angele... DYLAN BRUCE I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I th... BEN SCHNETZER There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my... WHITNEY CUMMINGS I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I di... GEORGE SIDNEY I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriet... ROB LOWE I've been really lucky; I've had the opportunity to play so many roles. I can't imagine ... BILLY CRUDUP I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as pe... RON MOODY I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is '... APOLO OHNO If I was to have a reality show, it wouldn't be a show based on my personal life. I'd want i... KEHLANI I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do inst... ESTELLA WARREN I don't like it when celebrities get voice work. But then again, if I was the producer, I wouldn... JOHN DIMAGGIO Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seri... AARON ECKHART I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metal... RIVERS CUOMO If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach t... JOHN NIVEN I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor. BRYAN GREENBERG I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut pro... MAE JEMISON I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing ph... ELLIE GOULDING I had a normal upbringing and went to public school. If I ever, even for a second, started getting a... MILA KUNIS If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have reti... GARY SPEED I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my rol... HEATHER DOERKSEN When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the pr... GEORGE TAKEI 'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought ... PAULY SHORE I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with t... VINCE NEIL I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as profession... BILLY SHERWOOD I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue ... OONA CHAPLIN After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer ... JUSTIN KIRK I'm aware me getting a role out of Chicago as a complete unknown is an insane anomaly, so I knew... ALLISON TOLMAN In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy rol... BEBE NEUWIRTH I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music. SKYLAR GREY I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle... ALICE WALKER Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually ... MILEY CYRUS I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It... ZOE MCLELLAN I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I'm pretty sure N... ALAN YANG My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was ... CORBIN BERNSEN I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL... MINDY KALING The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people ... CHRIS O'DONNELL
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JACQUELINE CAREY Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could ... JACQUELINE RAYNER Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free. JACQUELINE SUSANN A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him. JACQUELINE SUSANN Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different peop... JACQUELINE SUSANN I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory. JACQUELINE WOODSON I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine. JACQUELINE CAREY All knowledge is worth having. JACQUELINE CAREY And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one c... JACQUELINE CAREY Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you JACQUELINE CAREY Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?" Ian St. John in TH... JACQUELINE LATOURRETTE The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Co... JACQUELINE RIPSTEIN I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital. JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and ... JACQUELINE WOODSON President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution in... JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ My favorite way to unwind is to go for a walk with my husband and the dog at the end of the working ... JACQUELINE WINSPEAR It's become a fact of life, especially if you're in a public place such as a store. A lot of people ... JACQUELINE WHITMORE It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and kno... JACQUELINE CAREY You don't lose a partner you've been with for 30-odd years and just wake up one day with a smile. JACQUELINE SAUVAGEAU In comedy, if you don't have the right tuning with your co-actor, the humour can fall flat. JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I sw... JACQUELINE CAREY It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you JACQUELINE CAREY Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be di... JACQUELINE CAREY Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-ey... JACQUELINE CAREY couples. Their duties done, they had eyes only for each other, locking glances and smiling deeply; t... JACQUELINE CAREY In love, howsoever it is manifest, we are greater than the sum of our parts. JACQUELINE CAREY Io sono Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève, e sono unica. JACQUELINE CAREY They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers. Let the ... JACQUELINE CAREY in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself. JACQUELINE CAREY The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played. JACQUELINE CAREY Spontaneity is the province of youth JACQUELINE CAREY One must gauge one's trust carefully. JACQUELINE CAREY Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul. JACQUELINE CAREY My lord. It is too much, and not enough JACQUELINE CAREY To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it JACQUELINE CAREY I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer JACQUELINE CAREY There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of ... JACQUELINE CAREY The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart JACQUELINE CAREY Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice ... JACQUELINE CAREY Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear JACQUELINE CAREY All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them. JACQUELINE CAREY Love as thou wilt JACQUELINE CAREY That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get rea... JACQUELINE MCKENZIE To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. JACQUELINE COCHRAN I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorte... JACQUELINE WOODSON I have a very active team who works with me when it comes to my styling and putting together a look. JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are '... JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ Actresses are usually either the love interest or the glam quotient in a movie, but I play a strong ... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ I find cooking very sensual. I love getting in there with my hands instead of utensils. With all of ... JACQUELINE OBRADORS I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of par... JACQUELINE WINSPEAR