When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.
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CHARLES DAVIS It was kind of bare when we first came here.
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IKE TURNER Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Holl...
MARTIN LANDAU When I first came here there was practically no spirit, nobody went to the games.
BOCHEN UANG My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
ADRIAN GRENIER A preconceived notion is like having tunnel vision. You miss a lot.
JIM GENOVESE When I came here, Sunset Boulevard was in the country. It was not even asphalted when I came here in...
BILLY WILDER I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.
TREVOR JACKSON I was just thinking back over the years and when I first came here. My first match as a freshman, al...
ALEXIS GORDON When I first had contact with the chairman, I was very happy to come here.
ALAIN PERRIN I'm thinking about it, ... I was supposed to play football when I first came here. That was what I w...
WALLACE SPEARMON I was on the board when she came - I got her here. She will be very difficult to replace.
JOAN SAUNDERS I used to go to the Hollywood YMCA when I first came here, and I was standing in front of the mirror...
KEVIN NEALON I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
RICHARD SERRA I came here every year when I was kid,
DONALD HALL When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career....
SALMA HAYEK I've been riding for a very long time, since I was five. I came here when I was eight or nine. When ...
CAITLIN SHIPE When I came here, it was the first time that I had left my family. I was so homesick and I had the k...
MARTIN BARTOS An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. A...
ADEO RESSI When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
DAVID FINCHER I didn't want to step on anybody's toes (when I first came here), but now I'm comfortable.
LANCE GALBRAITH I was a redhead when I first came to America.
POPPY MONTGOMERY It's funny, because when I came here, something made me think about what it was going to feel like g...
BOBBY HOLIK When he first came here, he wasn't exactly a run-stuffer. He's become very good at that. He's not a ...
JOHN FOX When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Are you afraid of trying new things? Be very afraid of being closed minded and not enjoying the expe...
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO When we saw this we were amazed. The first year we came out here, it was just a tomato field.
LINDA SMITH When we first came to Pascagoula, we saw him quite a lot. He came in here a lot and we always though...
MARY ANDERSON She worked for him for three months. When I first came here she didn't work for me.
GENE FRAISE That game was decided long before it began. We came out with a very offensive-minded attitude instea...
BILLY LANGE I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the fi...
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ERNIE SALVATORE His speech was very high-minded.
DAN GELBER We used to come here and hang out, joke around and get burgers. I still came here regularly, up unti...
MIKE SMITH The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.
BO BENNETT I'm very disappointed that I came here.
LECIA BROWN The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.
ANTHONY LICCIONE I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came...
GEORGE SHEARING I had a meeting with Mike when I came in here, and he said my chances aren't very good.
DAVE BURBA When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overprodu...
TAYLOR DAYNE In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.
MICHAEL SHERMER I was very, very determined. I didn't fly 24 hours to not win it. To get what I came here for is gre...
CRAIG MOTTRAM I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.
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DAPHNE GUINNESS I came back to Utah to get away from Hollywood.
MIKE LOOKINLAND I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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LEONARD NIMOY Thank goodness that money came. This program could very easily have closed down in early February.
KIP BOWMAR I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.
BILL KREUTZMANN It's very exciting to be here. Being here with some people who I read about when I was younger, some...
LAVELL EDWARDS I was a hypocrite. When the roof came down, it was going to fall on me first.
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LISA JOHNSON He was a very personally attractive, excited, and thoughtful guy who cared about a wide range of sci...
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BRIIANA RENDE I think he was nervous at first, but when the nerves calmed down he came through.
DWAYNE BOLT When I came here I was feeling pretty strong about South Carolina. I knew I needed to take this visi...
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