“With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.”
“I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.”
| Billy Baldwin, Designer (1963) |
| William Baldwin, Actor (1963) |
| Jeanne Calment, Celebrity (1875) |
| Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician (1958) |
| Tyne Daly, Actress (1946) |
| Anthony Daniels, Actor (1946) |
| Leo Delibes, Composer (1836) |
| Jonathan Safran Foer, Writer (1977) |
| David Geffen, Businessman (1943) |
| Hubert De Givenchy, Designer (1927) |
| Clifton Daniel, Editor (2000) |
| Kurt Eisner, Politician (1919) |
| Margot Fonteyn, Dancer (1991) |
| Tom Glazer, Musician (2003) |
| Robert Hall, Clergyman (1831) |
| Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist (2005) |