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East Los Angeles Quotes By Will.i.am

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad. — Will.i.am

East Los Angeles Quotes By Annie Jacobsen

In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it. — Annie Jacobsen

East Los Angeles Quotes By Brandon Jennings

I've never really been told my game reflects like I'm from Los Angeles. I'm always told that I have more of an East Coast type game. — Brandon Jennings

East Los Angeles Quotes By Edmund White

The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast ... So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet. — Edmund White

East Los Angeles Quotes By Taylor Handley

We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport. — Taylor Handley

East Los Angeles Quotes By Tessa Thompson

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East. — Tessa Thompson

East Los Angeles Quotes By Rabih Alameddine

There are a few places on the East Coast, and maybe Los Angeles, where women understand evening gowns. The rest of the country still has far to go. — Rabih Alameddine

East Los Angeles Quotes By Rush Limbaugh

Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions? — Rush Limbaugh

East Los Angeles Quotes By Carlos Mencia

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people. — Carlos Mencia

East Los Angeles Quotes By Michael Trevino

I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself. — Michael Trevino

East Los Angeles Quotes By Michael Douglas

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you? — Michael Douglas

East Los Angeles Quotes By Raymond Chandler

The car slid along Los Angeles to Fifth, east to San Pedro, south again for block after block, quiet blocks and loud blocks, blocks where silent men sat on shaky front porches and blocks where noisy young toughs of both colors snarled and wise-cracked at one another in front of cheap restaurants and drug-stores and beer parlors full of slot machines. (Pickup on Noon Street) — Raymond Chandler

East Los Angeles Quotes By Gabriel Iglesias

For about three years I was performing at one bar in East Los Angeles that was like a mean dive bar. You're in there performing for drunks or bikers, not the most flattering people. I think it helped build my confidence, because you have to get their attention, then make them laugh. — Gabriel Iglesias

East Los Angeles Quotes By Pimp C

Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You niggas ain't in the South. — Pimp C

East Los Angeles Quotes By Jeff Kahn

Things do change and, unlike the Middle East and the traffic in Los Angeles, sometimes they can even get better. — Jeff Kahn

East Los Angeles Quotes By Garth Risk Hallberg

The cushions of my friend's couch were some kind of rubberized velour, the windows were uncurtained, and at five a.m. the birds were all atwitter and the light, the L.A. light everyone goes on and on about, was right in my East Coast eyes. Give me New York any day, I thought. But when New York came, it was with fangs and claws, in a nightmare I now woke from screaming. — Garth Risk Hallberg