Midwest Quotes

• Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

  Jami Gertz

  Summer, Stars, Sleep

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• Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

  Big Sean

  Add, Flavor, World

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dark, Light, Sunrise

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• A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

  Leah Stewart

  Ambition, People, Kind

  Leah Stewart (2013). “The History of Us: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lying, Father, Real

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

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• I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

  Jason Reitman

  Waiting, Parent, Beverly Hills

  "INTERVIEW: Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2011.

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• There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

  Ajay Naidu

  Loneliness, Europe, Sky

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• I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

  Bob Balaban

  Children, Growing Up, Acceptance

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 03, 2003.

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• I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

  Joe Lando

  Thinking, Illinois, Hiking

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• Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

  Daniel Breaker

  Haunting, Eccentric, Firsts

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• Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

  Charles Baxter

  Shining, Glitter, Dull

  Charles Baxter (2001). “The feast of love”, Vintage

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• There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Comforting, Wisconsin, Middle

  "Actors Whitford, Kaczmarek: Cheeseheads united", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2001.

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• Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

  Charley Pride

  Mother, Careers, Receiving

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Hiking, People

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• I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

  Roger Taylor

  Hiking, Target, England

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• She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Hard Work, Age, Young

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• The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

  Al Franken

  Moving On, Running, Home

  "Al Franken gets serious about politics". www.today.com. November 9, 2005.

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• As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

  Donald Johanson

  Opportunity, Hiking, Numbers

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Children, Hiking, Ballet

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

  Mike Pence

  War, Reality, Hiking

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

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• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  Douglas Wilson

  Character, Opposites, Agriculture

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• I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.

  Lesley Gore

  Gay, Two, Differences

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• Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

  Sydney Pollack

  Sunday, Weekend, Hiking

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• After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.

  Tracy Letts

  Writing, August, Should Have

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• I was born in the Midwest, where "salad" was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

  Candy Crowley

  Children, Healthy, Salad

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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