Small Town Quotes - Page 5

• Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to enjoy things. You know, I come from a great city where there are lots of things happening, and if you end up in a small town where you don't have all those things you can feel the difference. Somewhere along the way, though, I think I learned to appreciate the difference.

  Logan Lerman

  Thinking, Cities, Differences

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Thinking, People, Six

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• Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

  Howard Stringer

  America, Hollywood, West Coast

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• What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.

  Bob Taft

  Unique, Ohio, Cities

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• There is such a cool vibe in Nashville. It is has the excitement of a big city, but also has this amazing small town feel. I have definitely come to call it my home, and have my favorite go-to spots. But most of all it's the people. The southern charm, and hospitality. And some great shopping never hurts. As fun as Music City is during the day, the real magic happens at night ... The lights, the energy, the music, how could you not love this town?

  Hayden Panettiere

  Hurt, Fun, Real

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• I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

  Bea Arthur

  California, Towns, Maryland

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• As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

  Anika

  Dream, Thinking, Support Systems

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• That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Cities, People, Care

  "You have to be brave". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2006.

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• Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Growing Up, Thinking, Towns

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• I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

  Hermann Hesse

  Latin, Book, School

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.

  Harvey Gantt

  Struggle, Hands, Care

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• Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

  Doris Lessing

  Mean, Self, Towns

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Four-Gated City”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

  Edna Ferber

  Smart, Towns, Serious

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.13, Booklassic

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• Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Towns, Bankers

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The bad thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. The good thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. During times of trouble, the support system was massive.

  Linda Howard

  Support Systems, Issues, Towns

  Linda Howard (2011). “Open Season”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Sex, Believe, Successful

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.

  Krysten Ritter

  Cousin, Home, Kids

  "Krysten Ritter: Master Pool Shark". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

  Esther Williams

  Home, Swimming, Hints

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• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Gossip, Age, Mouths

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• I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.

  Mary Sue Terry

  Education, Sex, Teaching

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• One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

  Edward Abbey

  Couple, Years, Cities

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

  Warren Christopher

  Growing Up, People, North Dakota

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• My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

  Warren Christopher

  Father, Years, California

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• I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

  Landon Liboiron

  Towns, Approach

  "Hot Topic: Landon Liboiron" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. April 19, 2013.

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• A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

  Alan Autry

  Cities, Valleys, Matter

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