- Plenty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fernando Quotes
Quotes on Fernando, the San Fernando Valley, and growing up there.
This collection of Fernando quotes centers on the San Fernando Valley, from its manufacturing history to personal memories of growing up there in the 1970s riding bikes and skateboarding in empty pools. A couple of lines also reference a historical Father Fernando known for aiding the sick.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are good players in Europe and all the way around the world, but better than Torres - no. I would not want to swap Fernando with anyone else in the world, because he is my player, and I'm very pleased with him.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen's tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign!
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which doesn't feel like L.A. It's a bit different. It's still L.A. County, but it's not the same, it's not the kind of place where they embrace you for being a weirdo. You were just left alone with your Nintendo, and that was my life.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.
- Attack
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atletico players have always been characterised by this kind of player in attack like Fernando Torres, Sergio Aguero, Diego Costa, and Radamel Falcao.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020