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Letter "L" » Las Vegas
«After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.»
«Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
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Author,
Journalist)
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Keywords:
bastard,
chemicals,
closing,
complicated,
ether,
every now and then,
heinous,
Hollywood,
Las,
Las Vegas,
load,
load up,
now and then,
pint,
Pints,
up on,
volume,
weasel,
weasels
«To me, film right now is dormant. It's a sleeping giant. It's the plaything of corporations. The people who determine what American film is today are no different from high rollers who go to Las Vegas. They just want to take all the money and put it on one big number and roll the dice on that number and if it craps out, next number. Next case.»
Author: William Friedkin
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Film Director,
Producer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Corporations,
craps,
dice,
dormant,
giant,
just in case,
Las,
Las Vegas,
on that,
plaything,
playthings,
put to sleep,
rolled into one,
rollers,
Sleeping Giant
«A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me.»
Author: Joan Didion
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Journalist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
casino,
casinos,
dress whites,
halter,
halters,
Las,
Las Vegas,
lays,
Riviera,
The Casino
«Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.»