Hometown Quotes - Page 8

• I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

  Joe Manganiello

  Home, Men, Roots

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• In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.

  Chris Matthews

  Fun, Boys, Night

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Girl, Parent, Insulting

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• I didn't take a break from making music, but I took some time away from the "need to sell it" thing, and moved to my hometown, Umeå. I took my time there, exploring music on my own, on a very personal level.

  Tove Styrke

  Needs, Levels, Break

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Son, Boys, Night

  Song: My Hometown, 1984

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• I never wore high heels in my hometown.

  Liu Wen

  High Heels, Heels

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• For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

  Katharine Graham

  Eight, Cities, People

  Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.16, Vintage

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• I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

  Maud Adams

  People, Odd, Persons

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• There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court.

  Marv Albert

  New York, Mirrors, Should Have

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• I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

  Katie Price

  Majority, London, My Family

  "Katie Price is right". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• It is not possible to rent a beach house within five hours' drive of one's hometown without being visited by people. This is especially true if I have actually invited them. One of my problems is that I like to be nicer than I actually am.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Beach, People, House

  Mary-Lou Weisman, Edward Koren (2003). “Traveling While Married”, p.125, Algonquin Books

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• I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you know, when you sign up to be an actor it's like joining the circus and the circus is not always going to be in your hometown.

  Dean Winters

  New York, Home, Age

  "Interview: ‘Battle Creek’ star Dean Winters on nearly killing Josh Duhamel and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 1, 2015.

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• When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."

  Rebel Wilson

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Literature, Definitions, Argument

  Source: artisticactivism.org

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• The British Fashion Awards are also very important because it's my hometown. But it's really a recognition of my team, and those awards give me an opportunity to thank them in a formal way. You and I have worked together enough to know that it really isn't about two people. It's a whole team. And so it's great to acknowledge that you never do anything alone.

  Christopher Bailey

  Fashion, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

  John Gould

  Moving, Ties, People

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• For He hath prepared for them a City! Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to have any passport nor visa problems, they're not going to have to make sure you've got enough money to stay there awhile, it's YOUR town, your Hometown in Heaven, praise God? And they're all going to be your people! We're just going to be one nationality of one nation, ...we just haven't found the place yet, we haven't gotten there yet!

  David Berg

  Cities, People, Heaven

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• I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with incredible envy. Because whatever the slings and arrows of dealing with the record business, at the end of the day, they have total creative autonomy. They don't need a lot to do what they do, and Thom [Yorke] and Jonny [Greenwood] and the guys have their own joint in their hometown.

  Edward Norton

  Years, Arrows, Envy

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

  Pete Seeger

  Mean, Thinking, Aquifers

  "Possibility and Hope". Interview with Linda C. Forbes, monthlyreview.org. January 1, 2015.

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• I don't like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they're all about.

  Tank Abbott

  People

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• I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

  Li Bingbing

  Desert, Earth, Forests

  "Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick, an advocate for our domestic-violence shelter at the YWCA, was killed in her home by a man doing handiwork in her apartment complex. That one of my greatest advocates could fall victim to something she fought against her whole life was a tragedy that moved me to action.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Fall, Home, Men

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• As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

  Julie Burchill

  Children, Book, Two

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• I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.

  LeBron James

  Team, Thinking, Cleveland

  "LeBron: I'm coming back to Cleveland" by LeBron James, www.si.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations."

  Will Kimbrough

  Dream, Character, Greek

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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