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# STRAY Talk: Quotations from Santa Monica's week in local news
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/s-t-r-a-y-talk-20070915/
- Published: 2007-09-15T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:52:56.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica Airport, #archive-import

*A center-cut, no-fat review of what was said this past week by folks the world over and right at home*

*By Quotations lovingly assembled by CYNTHIA VAZQUEZ.*

— Actress Cate Blanchett, on playing male singer Bob Dylan in an upcoming movie “I think I had my tongue so far down his throat I could taste his fiancée - and I might need a repeat performance later tonight.” — Jerry Rubin, a Santa Monica native and activist, as he pulled chains out of a bag at a Tree Savers meeting convened to save the ficus trees along Second and Fourth streets “Taught me how to launder money in the Cayman Islands.” — David Letterman reading from his list, Top 10 Reasons I Love Oprah, on the 22nd-season premiere of “The Oprah Winfrey Show”

“I just strapped those breasts down and went for it.” — Actress Cate Blanchett, on playing male singer Bob Dylan in an upcoming movie “You’ve seen too much of that Hollywood stuff.” — Officer Brent Crafton, a member of the Santa Monica Police Department’s Special Entry Team, to a team of officers training for an “active shooter” scenario at Santa Monica College “Nice people don’t go around getting themselves knifed to death.” — Excerpt from O.J. Simpson’s book, “If I Did It,” which was released this week “The hotel considers this to be an imperative aspect for the hotel and its colleagues in order to ‘Turning Moments into Memories for our Guests’ as our mission states.” — Ellis O’Connor, general manager for the Fairmont Miramar Hotel, in a letter to the ACLU after employees notified union representatives with allegations that the hotel required employees to adhere to an English-only policy For me, a life without murder is like a life without food for you.” — Russian serial killer, Alexander Pichushkin, 33, who has confessed to killing 62 people with the goal of marking all 64 squares on his chessboard — Tom Ponton, founder of the Mar Vista neighborhood council, addressing the opening up of the Airport Dog Park to Mar Vista residents, who claim to support Santa Monica’s economy

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 15, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091507.pdf?ref=smdp.com)