Towns Quotes - Page 40

• Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

  Alan Rickman

  Energy, Wonderful, Los Angeles

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  Sam Trammell

  Beautiful, Running, Virginia

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• I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

  Adam Driver

  California, Indiana, Six

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Adam Driver". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. August 12, 2009.

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• I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.

  Adam Driver

  Boys, Thinking, Space

  "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.

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• There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

  Martha MacIsaac

  East, Canada, Small Town

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• Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.

  Ralph Bellamy

  Nice, Littles, States

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• I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns,  where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.

  Grace Kelly

  People, Suffering, Hollywood

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• Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

  Anthony Quinn

  Brother, Mexican, Bob

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• Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

  Alan Hirsch

  Teaching, Heart, Expression

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• The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Secret, Finding Yourself, Criticism

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• The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

  David Shenk

  Communication, Decision, Internet

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• I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

  Paul Allen

  Ebola, People, Shipping

  "Paul Allen to Give $100 Million to Tackle Ebola Crisis" by Stephanie Strom, www.nytimes.com. October 23, 2014.

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• For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

  Blake Crouch

  Dream, Halloween, Perfect

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• Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

  D. W Brogan

  Atheist, Atheism, Village

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• There's a reason that I love this town.

  Joel Plaskett

  Reason

  Song: Love This Town, Album: La De Da, 2005

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• My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

  Polly Adler

  Women, Home

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.304, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

  Carly Simon

  War, Cities, Long

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• "Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

  Kenneth Grahame

  Real, Sight, Next Week

  'The Wind in the Willows' (1908) ch. 2.

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• By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

  John Leo

  Change, Fashion, Erotic

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• What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.

  Ben Brantley

  Team, Love Life, Simple

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• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  Patrick MacGill

  Home, Sight, Bird

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.36, Read Books Ltd

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• One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

  Connie Sellecca

  Blessing, Government, Fishing

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• A little bit of this town goes a very long way.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Las Vegas, Long, Littles

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.189, Vintage

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• New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

  John Gunther

  Stars, New York, Rain

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• It's a town you come to for a short time.

  Ernest Hemingway

  New York, Short Time

  "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 13, 1950.

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