Small Town Quotes - Page 10

• After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people.

  Guy Ritchie

  Brother, Character, Pigs

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat with Snatch Director Guy Ritchie and Actor Vinnie Jones". Interview with Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 19, 2001.

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• I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

  Kid Rock

  Dad, Kids, People

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• I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Thinking, Perspective, Directors

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• Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

  Dorothy Allison

  Grief, Heart, Drunk

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• Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities.

  Sarah Palin

  Jobs, Responsibility, Alaska

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Happiness, Moon, Ideas

  "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, People, United States

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)

  Nick Hornby

  Writing, Character, Class

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

  Stendhal

  America, United States, Public Opinion

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.

  Tyler Oakley

  Towns, Enjoy, Wanted

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• I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.

  Mike Pence

  Mom, Country, Dad

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Darkness, Church, Levels

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me.

  Mike Pence

  Growing Up, Unique, Special

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze.

  Amy Pietz

  Towns, Excitement, Booze

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Let's say you want to do a job, and you want to be really successful. You want to rise really high in that career. But where you live, that job doesn't exist. Your town's too small. Or maybe the business is your town, but even if you reach the pinnacle there, because it's a small town, it's not nearly as high as you could go. If you're unwilling to move, well, that's all on you. That's a limitation you're placing on yourself. Now, that's fine if that's what makes you happy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Moving, Successful

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Cities, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

  Alexander Koch

  Kings, Book, Reading

  "'Under The Dome' Premiere: Alexander Koch And Britt Robertson On Junior And Angie’s Twisted Romance". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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• Fills the heart with its unforgettable characters and small-town charm. A feel-good read as welcome as a favorite friend!

  Christie Ridgway

  Heart, Character, Feel Good

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• I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

  Shaun Fleming

  New York, Towns, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dad, Father, Fighting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Dream, Men, Ms Dhoni

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2014

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• I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small towns. Self-storage. Things that didn't exist 50 years ago. Our common culture. What we have agreed is OK to live with.

  Sam Abell

  Self, Years, Culture

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to the highlands. It's a very beautiful part of the world. It's a small, I suppose quite conservative place.

  Ewan McGregor

  Beautiful, Scotland, World

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Television is just amazing - how many people see it and how many people recognize you, and I think once you've had the opportunity and have been in front of the public, it's very flattering to have people come up and say hello to you. It's a tremendous industry. I've been in places where people come out of the woodwork. And you would never think - small towns in France or traveling through Europe - and there are so many of those people there that recognize you, and you've been in their homes. I find it to be a very flattering thing.

  Robert Wagner

  Home, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Robert Wagner Gets Into the Hustle". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. January 17, 2007.

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• Jamestown was a very small town and I was thrilled to be there. It was interesting at first be adapting to the pro ball life style of being on the road alot and having a game almost every day but once I got use to it everything felt right.

  Graham Taylor

  Games, Interesting, Style

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