Alexandra Bracken Quotes

Oh sure, I really miss the changing seasons, because in Los Angeles you don't really get that - and I feel like New Yorkers - and, really, all East Coasters - they really earn their good seasons. They earn when the weather's hot; they earn when the leaves start to change.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn't happy there. I didn't have any friends in New York City, but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming, but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative.

I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

When I was 18, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.

I really missed the East Coast. I love living in Hawaii, but I miss the changing of seasons.

I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn't even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture.

I attended College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Calif., for a year, but college wasn't for me. I was curious about life beyond Los Angeles.

I remember, when I first left Phoenix for L.A. I was 19, and I arrived with just $1000 to my name.

Right after college, a buddy of mine was moving to Boulder for some summer program, and he was like, 'Come live with me.' And I figured, why not? I love Colorado.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

I think that New York liberated me in the sense that I moved here when I was 18, so it was a fresh perspective on life. I had been living in L.A. my whole life and I had never lived anywhere else, so being away from family and really making a name for myself was huge for me.