Small Town Quotes - Page 13

• I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, One Day, Would Be

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• We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

  Jimmy Wales

  New York, Cities, Cheerful

  "Jimmy Wales: Digital Champion of Free Speech" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2014.

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• Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.

  Randall Jarrell

  Book, Taken, Rome

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", p. 299, 1969.

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• I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

  Ishmael Beah

  Soccer, Morning, School

  "Former Child Soldier Recalls Experiences in Sierra Leone". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2007.

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• If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

  Ricky Gervais

  Reading, Towns, Bowie

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A.

  Justin Moore

  Morning, Sunday, Simple

  Song: Small Town USA, Album: Justin Moore, 2009

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• I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

  Annie Baker

  Growing Up, Writing, Thinking

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• I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

  Ben Bernanke

  Towns, Main Street, Streets

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• The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

  Lou Barletta

  America, Government, Towns

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• Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no other landmark ever could But Michael Kleen understands that these ghosts are more than just stories. As a folklorist and historian, Kleen shows readers the connection between our past and our present. Haunting Illinois is more than just a ghostly travel guide, it’s an adventure offering new insight on the haunts you know, but also takes you on a trip to the spirits in your own backyard.

  Jeff Belanger

  Adventure, Unique, Past

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• As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

  Robert Osborne

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

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• The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

  Joe Dante

  Hero, Atmosphere, Way

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• I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

  Philip Caputo

  Towns, Birth, Midwesterners

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• Grew up in a small town where there was only one crazy guy. He didn't even go insane doing anything good, like going to 'Nam or having an extended acid trip. Turns out - legend has it - he just had some bad cheese.

  Brian Posehn

  Crazy, Guy, Insane

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• I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people.

  Verne Troyer

  Class, People, Michigan

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

  Chris Isaak

  Military, Europe, Towns

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• I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Taslima Nasrin and the Struggle Against Religious Fundamentalism". Interview with ISIS, www.taslimanasrin.com.

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• I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

  Chris Colfer

  Growing Up, Character, Gay

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

  Chris Crutcher

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.

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• My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.

  Princess Superstar

  Real, War, Wind

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• A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Cities, Voice

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.240, Hackett Publishing

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• When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once I started to play music professionally, maybe it's from being from a small town, but you grow up and then you're suddenly a big fish in a small pond, and I realized that there were a billion other drummers out there that could play as good as you or better, and everybody wants that job.

  Patty Schemel

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• ...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

  John Irving

  Growing Up, Doors, Long

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• I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. These shows like Forensic Files, City Confidential, I just can't get enough of them. It's always the same sort of deal. You know that they interview the actual people that lived through the experience. I miss Paul Winfield as the host of City Confidential, may he rest in peace.

  Kevin Pollak

  Rest In Peace, Cities, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I'm more grounded, you know, and I know what I want out of life and I'm, you know, my morals are really, you know, strong and I have major beliefs about certain things and I think that has helped me, you know, from being, you know, coming from a really small town.

  Britney Spears

  Strong, Thinking, Towns

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