Towns Quotes - Page 4

• 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, Normal

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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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• Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.

  Evan Davis

  Art, Character, Names

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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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• Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Home, College

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• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

  Beth Ditto

  Crazy, Order, Special

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

  Fred Durst

  People, Kind, Cures

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• No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Couple, Home, Night

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• I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

  Steve Earle

  Neighbor, Moved, Known

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2012

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• San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

  Steve Earle

  Growing Up, Military, Air

  "“Making Art in America is a Political Statement in Itself”: Grammy Award-winning Singer Steve Earle on Music, Writing and Acting". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 13, 2011.

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• It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

  Roger Ebert

  Crazy, Hollywood, World

  Roger Ebert (2017). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition”, p.480, University of Chicago Press

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• I lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.

  Kellan Lutz

  Adventure, Midwest, Tiny

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• My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

  Hunter Hayes

  Italian, Cities, Two

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• In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

  Thierry Henry

  Monday, New York, Moving

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• Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Team

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• Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

  Faith Hill

  Graduation, Football, Children

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• Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

  Alice Hoffman

  School, People, Community

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• Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Luck, Noses

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• Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Lonely, Children, Home

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• At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

  Jesse Jackson

  The End Of The Day, Sides, Ends

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Davis/Moseley Braun meeting-and on the media covering the mayor’s race". Interview With Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

  James McAvoy

  Drama, School, Home

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• I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

  LeBron James

  Football, Team, Dragons

  Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Politics, Association

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.394

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