Small Town Quotes - Page 8

• The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.

  Eliza Griswold

  Friday, Running, Prayer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

  Charles Kuralt

  Littles, Towns, Encounters

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• I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, College, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.

  Ronee Blakley

  Teacher, College, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• [Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

  Hilary Mantel

  Father, Towns, Shopkeepers

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• When I look back, I'm glad I grew up in a small town. There, it's just you, your family and whatever you make of it.

  Champ Bailey

  Looks, Towns, Grew Up

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• I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked playing. I want to encourage people.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Dream, Inspiration, Guitar

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• My biggest challenge is being in a small town and not being able to meet a lot of people.

  Chris Soules

  People, Challenges

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.

  Amos Oz

  Israel, Village, Jerusalem

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The EPA's [Clean Power Plan] is another example of Washington's lack of understanding when it comes to rural and Western energy issues. I oppose this new rule because it hurts my district, which has four coal-fired plants that power Arizona's big cities, small towns, businesses and residences. These plants also provide good-paying jobs in our tribal and rural regions.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Hurt, Jobs, Cities

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In L.A., there could be a million delusional comedians or actors and they all blend in together and no one is ever like, "You're living a lie." But if you're in a small town and you're like, "I'm the funniest person here," but you're not that good, everyone's going to notice and call you out on it.

  Amy Miller

  Lying, Comedian, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

  Gucci Mane

  Humble, House, Alabama

  "Gucci Mane Is Happy, Healthy - And Productive As Ever". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, Frannie Kelley, kuaf.com. December 21, 2016.

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• I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and BFW Hall, and there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. There's some counties maybe I won, that people didn't expect, because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Winning, Iowa

  Source: time.com

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• Small towns and local publications love to have a hero of some kind. For Portland, it's definitely Ian Karmel and Ron Funches, but every year now they're looking for that person. If you know they're looking for it, then you could just try to insert yourself into that position, and it's much easier than if you're in a bigger town.

  Amy Miller

  Hero, Trying, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big urban centres that you don't necessarily have in smaller, rural communities. I've got loads of friends and relatives that live there. People like living there, bringing up their kids there and all that stuff, but it'd be the death of me. I couldn't be in a small town, ten minutes I'd enjoy it, and then I'd get fed up because you're so constrained and constricted by it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Kids, People, Community

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• What interested me in film was the image-making aspect of it. So, I went to school in cinematography. I was really convinced that image was what I wanted to do, and I think it came from the fact that I lived in a small town my whole life, but my mother was very interested in painting, so she would bring us to Paris for two weeks. So, we're going to the Louvre and to the museums and to see shows. In the evening we were seeing theater. Painting is basically what led me. I think the image was key.

  Babette Mangolte

  Mother, School, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country, and it's got to be addressed. We've got to stop it. It's eroding our politics. It's separating our society into the haves and the have-nots. It's condemning a whole younger set of our population to not be able to enter the middle class. And, it hits hardest in the prairie areas of the United States, our small towns and communities, where the jobs just aren't available and the incomes are low.

  Tom Harkin

  Country, Community, Wealth

  Source: progressive.org

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• I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cities, Often Is, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of the written word. But for me the urge toward poetry, that seductive feeling of being swept away by words, was enough for me to overcome that fear that my experiences weren't worthy of poetry itself.

  Allison Joseph

  Cities, Worry, Seductive

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America.

  Harold Hamm

  Dream, America, Next

  "Presidential Candidates Hold Starkly Different Views On Energy". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 23, 2016.

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• The ultrasound that has application not only in space for a long mission or for a mission to the Moon or Mars, but also in remote areas on the Earth. Not even just - I'm not even talking about expeditions like to the Antarctic, but just a remote area, a small town somewhere. The local doctor is not going to know everything, and so if that person can link in with a diagnostic ultrasound to the hospital in New York City through the internet, then they can do a very quick diagnosis of something that's wrong with someone that's in this remote area.

  Leroy Chiao

  Moon, Long, Earth

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Mean, Kids, Artist

  Source: frankviola.org

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• I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.

  Daughn Gibson

  New York, Growing Up, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, Class, Community

  Source: screenrant.com

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• My mom. She was quite a character. Open-minded. It was a very small town, and she started her own business, manufacturing children's wear. She was very dynamic. Her death was like the umbilical cord being cut. That's when I moved to America.

  Francisco Costa

  Mom, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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