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Francisco Quotes
Quotes rooted in life around San Francisco.
These quotes trace personal connections to San Francisco, from a longtime local presence built through offseason functions to a move from Sacramento that reshaped someone's creative sound. Community shows up too, in a writers' collective sharing office space in a converted building.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.
- Earthquake
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big diver. I like to dive when I travel, and my last dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in San Francisco and I would dive all the time in Monterey.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, 'Girls': I love 'Girls,' I watch 'Girls.' But it's a show that's very coastal. People in New York and people in L.A. and people in San Francisco will watch it. But I think in Middle America, for the most part, it probably isn't watched as much.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie.
- Family History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes San Francisco work is that high-value people like to live there and cluster.
- Familiar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.
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- Nov 07, 2020