Small Town Quotes - Page 4

• But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Artist, Cities, People

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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's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

  Eliza Coupe

  Growing Up, Pain, My Boyfriend

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• I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

  Sergio Aragones

  Home, Towns, Studios

  Q&A section on the official site, sergioaragones.com.

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• Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

  Laurie Notaro

  Running, Space, Towns

  Laurie Notaro (2007). “There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble”, p.18, Villard

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• Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Growing Up, Land, Cities

  "Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund Talk ON THE ROAD, Watching Nude Scenes with Parents, and TWILIGHT Fans". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 16, 2012.

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• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Mother, Country, Song

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• I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

  Joan Allen

  Thinking, Acting, Adults

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• I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

  Jesse Plemons

  Football, Crazy, School

  "Friday Night Lights: Jesse Plemons Has Home-Field Advantage". Interview with Marnie Hanel, www.vanityfair.com. April 2009.

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• I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

  Jeremy Renner

  Community, Way, Towns

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• Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Real, Book, Character

  Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company

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• I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Guy, Midwest, Towns

  "Why Jim Gaffigan Can't Stop Eating". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.

  Earl Monroe

  Fun, Guy, Stories

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• I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

  June Squibb

  Country, Illinois, Littles

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• Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

  Kim Edwards

  Circles, People, Library

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• Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure.

  Jo-Ann Mapson

  Beach, Heart, Heathers

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• When you're growing up in a small town
  You know you'll grow down in a small town
  There is only one good use for a small town
  You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

  Lou Reed

  Growing Up, Hate, Use

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.333, Da Capo Press

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• A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out.

  Jeanine Basinger

  Jobs, Trying, World

  Jeanine Basinger (2013). “A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960”, Knopf

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• In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

  Paul Harvey

  People, Towns, Nervous

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• I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.

  Nick Offerman

  Character, Illinois, Watches

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.

  Nick Offerman

  Country, Book, Kids

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.

  John Krasinski

  People, Creative, Towns

  "John Krasinski Talks PROMISED LAND, Collaborating with Matt Damon, Getting Input from Aaron Sorkin, THE OFFICE, Developing His Own Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 3, 2013.

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• I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.

  Ty Burrell

  Fishing, Competition, Towns

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.

  John Newman

  People, Giving, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

  Wayne Knight

  Towns, Worst

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2009.

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