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There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Work, Alone

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
Jeff Bridges

Life, Work, Wife

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.
Katy Perry

Family, Mean, Married

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
Courtney Love

Mean, Days, Diva

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
Dee Dee Myers

Power, Public, Whether

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
Jean Baudrillard

May, Though, Santa

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.
Kevin Costner

Time, Live, Pretty

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?
Jane Pauley

Hear, Tried, Sounds

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.
Tony Kushner

Love, Good, Greatest

Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.
Larry Hagman

Beautiful, Girl, Eden

For me, wigs and hairpieces are an everyday part of my life. One day I can wear what I like to call my 'Back to you, Barbara' look - professional and full of layers - and the next day you may see me in my 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' look - curly, fun and bubbly.
Sherri Shepherd

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
Jenny Eclair

Respect, Quite, Admire

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.
Robert De Niro

Great, Mean, Actress

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.
Mayer Hawthorne

Saying, Different, Two

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.
Eric Stoltz

Dad, School, Parents

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.
David Fincher

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.
John McCain

Experience, Today, Her

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'
Robert Teeter

Son, Personal, Question

Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.
Star Jones

Women, Together, Different

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
Tom T. Hall

Career, Her, Dead

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
Tom Selleck

Hero, She, Mine

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
Rita Coolidge

Wanted, Journey, Jazz

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
Jonathan Winters

Mother, Successful, Show

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.
Roone Arledge

Here, Show, She

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
Randy Quaid

Trust, Through, Afraid

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.
Mickey Kaus

Anybody, Democratic, Position

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.
Ted Olson

Mind, Through, Her

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
Ted Olson

Love, Strength, Sympathy

I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?
Sophie Thompson

Time, Thought, Working

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.
June Allyson

Music, Role, Millions

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