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I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

~Amy Irving

Topics: Allowed Am Anymore Francisco Hippie Just Old San San Francisco Shoes Tennis Travel Used I Am

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I went to an exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum about Shanghai, about how courtesans had been influential in bringing western culture to Shanghai. I bought a book and in it saw this striking group of women in a photograph called 'The Ten Beauties of Shanghai'.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Art Asian Beauties Been Book Bought Bringing Culture Exhibition Francisco Group Had How Influential Museum Photograph San Saw Shanghai Striking Ten Western Western Culture Women

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I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.

~Andrew Zimmern

Topics: China Eating Francisco Love San San Francisco Tokyo I Love

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I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

~Andy Cohen

Topics: Aunt Been Big Call City Coming Feel Few Francisco Friends Here Live Love Magical Much Oakland Old Old Friends San San Francisco Sexy Since Small-Town Think Uncle Very I Think I Love

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San Francisco is a wonderful city, but you do have housing issues. If tech companies don't do the right thing, they can dislocate a lot of what makes San Francisco special. At Workday, we want to be on the right side of that.

~Aneel Bhusri

Topics: City Companies Do The Right Thing Francisco Housing Issues Lot Makes Right Right Side Right Thing San San Francisco Side Special Tech The Right Thing Thing Want Wonderful You

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I went to grad school in San Francisco, and then left for New York City with my eye on Broadway. I had saved $5000, which seemed like a lot of money in my mind... until I realized it was going to take $2500 to get to New York and then the first and last month's rent.

~Anika Noni Rose

Topics: Broadway City Eye First Francisco Get Going Grad Grad School Had Last Left Like Lot Mind Money Month New New York New York City Realized Rent San San Francisco Saved School Seemed Take Then Until Which York

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Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Against Artist Birds Clan Disciplined Francisco Go Her Herself Husband Journey Martial Men Personal Prey Pursue Quest San San Francisco She Sword Trained Vengeance

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There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: After Blocks Camps Couple Down Francisco Internment Japanese Just Locked Locked Up San San Francisco Tourist Up

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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Before Between Day Disappointing Fear Feeling Francisco Full Gravy Hate Hoped March Most Peace Recent San San Francisco Somewhere Up Virginia Wake Wake Up Woke Woolf

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I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.

~Annette Bening

Topics: Actress Along Autobiographies Century Classical College Company Created Eva Francisco Great Her Hero Hilarious Junior Own Repertory San San Francisco She Theater Time Turn Wanted Who Wrote

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