Small Town Quotes - Page 5

• Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

  Esther Williams

  Home, Swimming, Hints

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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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• Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

  Jayma Mays

  Growing Up, Home, Piano

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

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• I was always übersexual...I was always wearing the smallest clothes I could find. I would go to the mall like that — in a short, short skirt and a giant wedge heel. That's what you do when you're a teenage girl in a small town.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Teenage, Clothes

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• I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

  Patty Duke

  House, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  Kate Bosworth

  Looks, Towns, Different

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• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  Rachael Harris

  Ohio, Feelings, Towns

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

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• I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Opposites, Southern

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• Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.

  Tupac Shakur

  Country, Real, Cities

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• A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

  Alan Autry

  Cities, Valleys, Matter

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• I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

  Landon Liboiron

  Towns, Approach

  "Hot Topic: Landon Liboiron" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. April 19, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Gossip, Age, Mouths

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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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• 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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• 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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• As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

  Anika

  Dream, Thinking, Support Systems

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• Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Thinking, People, Six

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• That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Cities, People, Care

  "You have to be brave". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2006.

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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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• 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 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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