Small Town Quotes - Page 9

• 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'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.

  Adam Dunn

  Moving, Cities, Guy

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• John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

  Mark Sheppard

  Teacher, Jesus, Plato

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• I'm honestly so incredibly grateful for every opportunity I get in film industry. Don't forget! I was born in a tiny little country in a small town and here I am working in Canada and America and it's incredible.

  Famke Janssen

  Country, Grateful, Opportunity

  "Famke Janssen Talks HEMLOCK GROVE Season 2, What’s New For Olivia, Working in Genre, and More". Interview, collider.com. July 5, 2014.

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• You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

  Jack White

  New York, Actors, Towns

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.

  Steve Martin

  Being Yourself, Distance, Party

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• To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spring, Night, Black

  Under Milk Wood (1954)

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• If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.

  Todd Grisham

  Jumping, Atlanta, Iowa

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• My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.

  Blake Bailey

  Mother, Father, School

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• I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

  Andy Cohen

  Sexy, Uncles, Aunt

  "Bravo's Andy Cohen shares his story in the Castro". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.

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• I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, Old Friends, Lots Of Friends

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

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• I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

  Miley Cyrus

  Nashville, Tennessee, Towns

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• My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

  Roald Dahl

  Father, Hands, Elbows

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• I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  School, Men, Texas

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• From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

  Penn Jillette

  New York, Couple, Squares

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

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• In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

  Stephen King

  Wind, People, Noses

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.262, Anchor

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• People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

  Bill Kurtis

  People, World, Towns

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• I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

  Rachel McAdams

  Sports, Art, Dad

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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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