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Daily Inspiration Quote by Linda Evans

"I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old"

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A tiny biography, delivered like a shrug, that quietly does big cultural work: Linda Evans isn’t just telling you where she’s from, she’s positioning herself inside Hollywood’s mythology while keeping the ego safely deniable. “Born in Connecticut” gestures toward an all-American, non-industry origin story - a normal beginning. Then comes the pivot: “But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A... Hollywood, actually,” a self-correction that tightens the lens from city to dream factory. The “actually” is doing a lot. It’s a wink at how Los Angeles is too broad a label when your real address, symbolically, is the industry itself.

The fragmentary, spoken rhythm (the dash, the repetition, the lowercase “i”) reads like casual conversation, which is the point: it makes proximity to Hollywood seem incidental, almost accidental. Six months old is the clincher. At that age, you can’t choose ambition, you can’t scheme, you can’t be a “Hollywood type.” The subtext is innocence: whatever fame became, it wasn’t a calculated grab; it was a family migration that turned into destiny.

Contextually, this is a classic old-school star narrative move, especially for an actress whose image was built on glamorous authority. She’s threading two needles at once: claiming authenticity (not born into the bubble) while asserting inevitability (raised at the center of it). It’s a neat way to make celebrity feel less like a ladder climbed and more like a place you simply arrived, before you could even talk.

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Evans, Linda. (2026, January 15). I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-born-in-connecticut-but-my-parents-brought-161308/

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Evans, Linda. "I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-born-in-connecticut-but-my-parents-brought-161308/.

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"I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-born-in-connecticut-but-my-parents-brought-161308/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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Linda Evans (born November 18, 1942) is a Actress from USA.

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