Angeles Quotations | Page 3

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

Given the proximity of our Long Beach branch to increasing truck traffic in and around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Juan's background handling cargo and trucking liability claims makes a perfect fit,

If thousands of demonstrators are coming to Los Angeles and the police say simply that no one can demonstrate, ... that creates the dynamic where problems can occur.

If the team is competitive, the Los Angeles fans will pay top dollar, make going to the games an event, ... But they won't support a loser. There are too many alternative activities can be conducted in the fall. You can go to beach. You can't do that in Chicago.

Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.

When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

It all felt very new and exciting, ... The Olympics had been hit by a series of boycotts - in 1976, 1980 and the upcoming Games in Los Angeles - whereas the Worlds at last featured all the best athletes from both the Eastern Bloc countries and the West.

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media.

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it's a good place to get writing, because you're so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.