I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I moved to L.A. in 1997.

I moved here in 1997. It's 20 years later, and I finally feel like I'm in this business. I feel like I could call…

— Retta

“The Minneapolis City Hall is not a pretty building. A pile of red granite, a sullen nineteenth-century Romanesque lump, it squats amid the glittering…

— John Sandford

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"

— James E. Myers

Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in…

— Kate DiCamillo

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.

— Bud Selig

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places…

— Charlie Chaplin

I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!

— Barkhad Abdi

I spent a lot of time in Minneapolis.

— Mike Lindell

I don't love L.A. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I'll stay in those places.

— Josh Hartnett

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could…

— Ann Coulter

Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on…

— Greg LeMond

The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as…

— Paul Reubens

Minneapolis has always been a mythical place for me because my mom is a massive Prince fan.

— Arlo Parks

In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote…

— Kate DiCamillo

For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

— Stephan Pastis