Eric Garcetti Quotes
Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.
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When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
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Rejection should ignite soul-searching, and the soul-searching must be absolutely honest.
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Love is sacrifice.
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I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
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I absolutely had a dream of doing 'Man of La Mancha' one day; that's a long time ago.
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There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'
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Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
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I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'
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What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
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Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.
