I like California a lot more than New York these days.
I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.
Robert Graysmith: Not many people have basements in California. Bob Vaughn: I do.
The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
When I was growing up, I didn't know there was a world outside of California.
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.
If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
