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

  Martha MacIsaac

  East, Canada, Towns

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Growing Up, Teenage

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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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• 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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• 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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