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Frances Beinecke Quotes

Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.

Frances Beinecke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american

Topics

Space Los Angeles Nation Open Urban

When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness of it all.

Jim Lee

History Green You Get Like Batman

I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time - Gong and Hawkwind - and I was clumping around.

Maxine Peake

Power Time Green Singing Boots Rock

I'm a passionate monarchist.

Max Hastings

Passionate

I believe in free markets. I believe in free trade. I believe in creating the conditions that will allow that to happen. And if we do that, American companies are going to be pretty darn competitive.

John S. Watson

Free Believe American Creating Will

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Amy Bloom

Happiness Confused Interesting Get

Within my second month of being in L.A., I booked my first audition. It was, like, a co-star on a show called 'Gang Related.' I got cut out of it.

Trevante Rhodes

First Gang Month Out Within Cut

When you read about it, you realize that mental illness is so prevalent. People didn't always have the right terms for it, but most families have had a brush with it.

Ron Howard

People You Mental Illness Right Most

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

Rollie Fingers

Myself Want Talk Get About

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joseph Joubert

Spiritual World Without Enigma

Certain things give you another perspective in life.

Jose Carreras

Life Perspective You Things Give

It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.

Diana Krall

Me Restaurant Hometown Drummer Years

I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.

Donna Lynne Champlin

Work Happy Me Listening Song Enjoy