‘Bless Me, Ultima’ is quite autobiographical in the sense that I was writing a story about my childhood, my hometown where I grew up, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, on Old Highway 66 and the Pecos River. So a great deal of that environment, landscape, people, got thrown in the novel.
Bound for Glory’ week was such a whirlwind. With it being filmed in Canada, it was really exciting for me. Although it was on the East Coast and I’m from the West Coast, still felt like I was kind of in my hometown, I don’t know.
Even in my hometown of Linkoping where I grew up… the church we had was very lavish – very boasty. So it ticked most of the boxes of big, imposing Christianity. And I love being there if I’m in town… because it’s just this haunting place.
I’m so grateful to America and my hometown of Pittsburgh. I love my city. I’m proud of being from here.
I grew up watching my older brother very closely who was a football player and a star in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio. My love of the game started early because of watching him. My neighborhood played a ton of football, pickup games outside in the backyards of the apartments where I grew up.
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.
I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.
I know Paris is my hometown, but I would never say, ‘Oh, I’m going home back to Paris.’ Because we kept moving when I was a child, my home was just where I was at that moment.
I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as the hometown of the mothers of its important heroes.
Prince was a child of our city, and his love of his hometown permeated many of his songs. Our pride in his accomplishments permeates our love of Minneapolis.
I arranged ‘DT Suga,’ which I previously used in lyrics, backwards. ‘DT’ is D Town and refers to my hometown. I like the meaning, and it sounds cool when I say it, so I think I’ll continue using this name when I work externally. I also like how the mixtape came out in August.
Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It’s present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I’m back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.
It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon’s always done that with us. Every time we come here, it’s an event – which is nice.
Obviously, it’s very exciting to be able to wrestle in my hometown.
I’m honored to serve as mayor of my hometown where our founders started America with three simple words: ‘We, the people.’ And when they said ‘people’ they didn’t mean ‘corporations.’
There are a lot of bands who would get really big in Fort Worth and play shows on a Friday night that everybody would come out to. But I’ve never been really big in my hometown. My shows would have 10 or 15 people at them.
While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at ‘The Mountain View Voice,’ my hometown newspaper.
I just want to win in front of my hometown and win in spectacular fashion. I’ve gotten to perform in many other venues in other states, but it’s going to be a special moment to be able to do that in front of everyone who has known me for the longest.
In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant – sushi restaurant.
If you did go to high school and then college, there’s definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff.
I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn’t stop cutting hair. That’s why I think I have such discipline in my job because I’ve always been very responsible.
Every St. Patrick’s Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.
I was discovered when I was 13 by an agent. I was standing outside a coffee shop in Gothenburg, my hometown, when I was approached.
I saw my hometown burning that day.
Like I’m in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I’ve got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.
I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.
In my hometown of Chicago, I’m kind of a medium deal.
In a lot of places Jay-Z is considered God, Philly, our hometown being one of them.
‘Shame,’ really it was about people from my hometown who just spread hate about me and just aren’t nice to me. And I just felt like that was a shame, so that’s really what that stems from.
Even though Puerto Rico will always be my hometown, I feel Miami is my second home.
My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.
I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.
I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, ‘What do you do?’ He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.
The truth is I don’t really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my hometown because there were no tall buildings there!
I act most like myself… when I’m in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
In 1967, my mother – then Francie Weinman – graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a network affiliate.
Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.
West Orange, where I grew up, is the hometown of Ian Ziering from ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Scott Wolf from ‘Party of Five,’ David Cassidy from the ‘Partridge Family,’ and Mike Pitt of ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and ‘Dawson’s Creek.’
My mother has been really instrumental in raising a lot of money through the Boys & Girls Club in my hometown.
There’s a certain vibe in my hometown; Buffalo is a city that has no illusions.
In December of 1990, just before my eighth birthday, I left China for the United States. My father was a political dissident, and after he was released from prison, we joined my mother in a little town in the mountains of Utah. It was quite a change from my hometown of Shanghai, a city of 25 million people.
It’s not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.
Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can’t go on making records just for your own hometown.
To come to somebody’s hometown and beat them on a split decision, that’s saying something.
I can still remember watching Italy win the 1982 World Cup. I was just an eight-year-old kid in Naples, my hometown, watching the games with a bunch of people in the houses of relatives and friends. I can recall that when Italy scored, we would shout and hug, even though we did not all know each other.
There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect what’s happening on the court.
I love how confident she is, plus we also come from the same hometown, Houston, Texas. Her name is Beyonce Knowles. I love her so, so, so much. I love how hard she works.
One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown.
As a basketball player, you dream of being able to play in front of your hometown. And if you’re lucky, other guys from your city are right there beside you.
UFC 203, Stipe Miocic is defending his belt in Cleveland, Ohio, that’s where I spent a lot of my amateur career and boxing, it’s an hour and 20 minutes from my hometown. I would like to dance with someone there in the Quicken Loans Arena.
It’s always fun to play the hometown.
Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.
I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can’t be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.
Raise your ambition beyond where you’re capable of now. There’s nothing about my hometown that said I’d be working with Fortune 50 CEO’s, Olympians, at the highest level.
