Small Town Quotes - Page 10

• I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

  William Gibson

  Summer, Baby, Beach

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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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’m from a small town so, like, everyone’s married with children or about to have children. So it’s a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that’s why people think I’m gay - because they’re like ‘Why aren’t you married?’ And I’m like, ‘it doesn’t happen for everyone right off the bat.’

  Kelly Clarkson

  Children, Home, Gay

  "Kelly Clarkson Denies Lesbian Rumors On ‘The View,’ Reveals Why People Think She’s Gay". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2011.

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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 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 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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• 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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• I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  London, Towns, Grew Up

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• When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze.

  Amy Pietz

  Towns, Excitement, Booze

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

  Alexander Koch

  Kings, Book, Reading

  "'Under The Dome' Premiere: Alexander Koch And Britt Robertson On Junior And Angie’s Twisted Romance". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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• I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small towns. Self-storage. Things that didn't exist 50 years ago. Our common culture. What we have agreed is OK to live with.

  Sam Abell

  Self, Years, Culture

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.

  Mike Pence

  Mom, Country, Dad

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Fills the heart with its unforgettable characters and small-town charm. A feel-good read as welcome as a favorite friend!

  Christie Ridgway

  Heart, Character, Feel Good

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• When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Darkness, Church, Levels

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Father, Texas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Cities, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If I have a family down the road, I don't know if I could ever raise them in the city because I am a small town girl at heart. I definitely long for the mountains.

  Zella Day

  Girl, Heart, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From as early as I can remember, I wanted to have something to do with the acting business. I was a TV junkie as a kid and I think, because I grew up in a small town where I couldn't imagine myself staying there and couldn't see myself being any of the people that I was surrounded by in this town, I just knew that I wanted a different kind of a life, but I didn't know what that meant and I didn't know how.

  Cherien Dabis

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

  Shaun Fleming

  New York, Towns, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.

  Tyler Oakley

  Towns, Enjoy, Wanted

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• I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dad, Father, Fighting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

  Moses Malone

  Basketball, Athlete, Ghetto

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Impact, Proud, Towns

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Dream, Men, Ms Dhoni

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2014

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