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I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.
Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass.
In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.
If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!
There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.
The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.
In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.
I could probably go on for a long time about the differences between Northern California and Southern California Mexican food.
California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.
I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days.
I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.
They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.
I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird."
No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.
We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.
In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.
I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
I would feel like such a behind if I went to California and made my family move, and they couldn't find their dreams there, too.
I'm always tan and blonde and don't really fit into New York. I'm a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather.
California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
I want to figure out how we put California and America back on track - how we bridge this partisan divide that is so polarizing.
Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.
In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.
A new restaurant here in Southern California requires women to wear high heels. I'm outraged! This is sexist! Why just the women?
Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California. He is a very shrewd man - he already has all of his sex scandals behind him.
Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.
Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
I can't root for the Lakers. I grew up in northern California, so I spent many of my young adult years rooting against the Lakers.
I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.
Police work was fascinating, and I didn't imagine that acting was something a kid from San Mateo, California, could really pursue.
I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.
Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.
A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, 'You guys are gay, right?
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.