Small Town Quotes - Page 3

• My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Crazy, Guy, Theatre

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• I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

  Brandi Carlile

  Girl, Kids, Years

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• Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.

  Bun B

  Ducks, Parent, Different

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  Frances Mayes

  Italian, Eyebrows, Georgia

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• I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.

  Suzi Quatro

  Country, Thinking, Australia

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• Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

  John Updike

  Land, Littles, Towns

  John Updike (1984). “The witches of Eastwick”, Fawcett

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• Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

  Ed Koch

  Running, No Friends, Towns

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• In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

  Dash Mihok

  Teenager, Kids, Years

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

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• I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

  Mark Hoppus

  Mom, Night, Car

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• I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.

  Carson Kressley

  Being Yourself, Growing Up, Kids

  "Carson Kressley: There’s nothing better than having Oprah in your corner". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 23, 2011.

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• When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Ukraine, Paris, Want

  MoviesOnline interview, www.mi6-hq.com. October 27, 2008.

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• I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.

  Guillaume Canet

  Lying, Gay, People

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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.

  Kevin Pollak

  Towns, Tvs, Murder

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

  Tom Morello

  Illinois, Color, Borders

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

  Aaron Paul

  Idaho, Towns, Grew Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.

  Franka Potente

  School, Skills, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

  Keith Haring

  Real, School, College

  "New Again: Keith Haring". Interview with Andy Warhol, Emilia Petrarca, Halston, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2013.

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• There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

  Martha MacIsaac

  East, Canada, Towns

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• I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.

  Adam Driver

  Boys, Thinking, Space

  "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.

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• I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.

  John Corbett

  Night, People, Trying

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• I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

  Erica Durance

  Girl, Towns, Beaten

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• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Nice, Careers, Looks

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• It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

  Bill Condon

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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• To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Dream, Team, Kids

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