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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
Mara Wilson
You
Girl
Valley
Way
Say
Totally
Since
New
Like
Know
California
Traces
Been
Lot
Southern
Than
Southern California
Trying
York
Any
Moved
New York
Anyone
Scrub
Originally
Harder
Thinks
Speech
You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.
Mark Kurlansky
You
Tried
Could
California
Limiting
Southern
Southern California
Really
Florida
I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.
Martine Syms
Language
Think
Thinking
Heritage
Liberal
Way
Pretty
About
Part
California
Household
Cultural
Traditions
Up
Southern
Southern California
Any
Grew
Interest
Really
Grow
Grow Up
Second
One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.
Nina Easton
Government
Failure
Memories
School
Car
Station
Out
High
High School
Vivid
Rationing
Price
Foot
Ideas
Most
Hill
California
Lines
Southern
Southern California
Controls
Lame
Street
Gas
Gas Station
Below
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
Parker Stevenson
Saying
Me
You
School
First
Young
Everyone
Lifeguard
Student
Pictures
California
Surprise
Southern
Southern California
Did
Prep
Played
Two
I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.
Penn Badgley
Day
Experience
School
Long
First
Needless
Guess
Punched
Month
Say
Eye
High
High School
About
Never
Had
Day One
California
Got
Friends
Southern
Southern California
Public
Really
I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.
Rene Russo
Love
Girl
Sense
Restore
California
Southern
Southern California
Place
To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it's been a dream, and I never once thought, 'Well, this is a lot of pressure.'
Rich Eisen
Love
Pressure
Thought
Once
Out
Dream
Ability
Able
Never
Football
Come
Talk
Also
California
Well
Been
Lot
Celebrities
Southern
Southern California
Conversations
Who
I could probably go on for a long time about the differences between Northern California and Southern California Mexican food.
Samin Nosrat
Time
Food
Long
Long Time
Differences
About
Could
Between
California
Go
Mexican
Southern
Southern California
Northern
Northern California
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
Saul Bellow
Country
Down
Everything
Collected
Angeles
Objects
Had
California
Loose
Tightly
Tilted
Los
Los Angeles
Were
Been
Southern
Southern California
America
Screwed
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross and into skateboarding in empty swimming pools. Those activities shaped my generation.
Scott Borchetta
Generation
Bicycle
Swimming
Valley
Those
My Generation
Shaped
California
Empty
Were
Fernando
Up
Friends
Southern
Southern California
Grew
San
Skateboarding
Pools
Activities
I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.
Scott Borchetta
Me
Part
California
Rocker
Up
Southern
Southern California
Just
Grew
Hollywood
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
Shelley Berman
Year
California
Course
Am
Southern
Southern California
Graduate
Teaching
University
I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.
Susan Straight
Gun
Saw
Never
Until
California
Up
Southern
Southern California
Grew
Grow
Grow Up
I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
Ted Danson
Family
Song
Drive
First
Big
Ocean
Down
Summer
Saw
Kid
Sun
Would
Arizona
Over
Come
Hill
Joyous
Sing
California
Always
Came
Arrive
Southern
Southern California
Moment
Near
Starting
Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.
Tori Kelly
You
Natural
Water
Living
Definitely
Feel
California
Southern
Southern California
Get
Influence
Reggae
Even
Near
My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I was, like, 8 or 9 years old. I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was in Southern California. My older sisters were in gangs. My older brother was in gangs.
Troy Polamalu
Old
Parents
Uncle
Trouble
Year
Before
Older
Brother
Like
California
Year-Old
Were
Years
Aunt
Lot
Southern
Sisters
Southern California
Grade
Getting
Moved
Separated
Gangs
Older Brother
Fourth
I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.
Will Ferrell
Speak
College
Three
Had
Arizona
Couple
California
Years
Texas
Up
Southern
Southern California
Anyone
Spanish
Much
Who
Grown
Grown-Up
As a photographer, God's light in Southern California is something unlike I've ever seen on planet Earth. There's a beauty about it, especially in the afternoon that is so pretty.
Marty Stuart
God
Light
Seen
Beauty
Unlike
Earth
Photographer
Pretty
About
Something
California
Southern
Southern California
Afternoon
Planet
Planet Earth
Ever
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.'
Henry Rollins
Reading
White
Joan
Angeles
Bethlehem
Lays
Towards
Since
Identified
California
Always
Los
Los Angeles
Southern
Southern California
Depiction
Ever
Play
Album
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
Ed Begley, Jr.
Water
Living
Too
About
Someone
Costs
Know
California
Well
Up
Southern
Southern California
Who
Grown
Grown-Up
History has been my primary intellectual passion ever since, as a boy in Southern California, I began reading books on World War II and the life of Winston Churchill.
Max Boot
Life
War
History
World
Passion
Reading
Books
Churchill
Has-Been
Winston
Winston Churchill
Primary
Since
California
Reading Books
Boy
Been
Intellectual
Began
Southern
Southern California
Ever
World War
World War II
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