I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn’t really a fashion-forward place, and it was very casual.
I grew up in a very small town, but it happened to be in western Massachusetts, where there were a lot of gay people. I remember my aunt going to a gay wedding when I was 11, and I thought it was the coolest thing.
The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high school football player.
I’m actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.
I don’t think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it’s more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don’t suppose there’s a small town around the country that doesn’t have a writer.
I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.
The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I’d have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.
I didn’t want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town – not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
I grew up all over Idaho – I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
I’ve gotten a lot of messages from kids struggling with their identity and sexuality, whether it’s because they’re in a religious family or a small town or a sport that’s not very accepting. I’ve had a ton of outreach, and I’ve tried to get back to kids as best I could.
Because I came from a small town outside Glasgow, nobody from my school had ever gone into the acting profession. It was just something you didn’t do. You joined the bank or became a teacher or whatever you did.
I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they’ll act differently. Are they the same person? Sure, but do they act different? Yeah.
I’m coming from a small town in Quebec where, at that time, there was no Internet, and the way to be in contact with movies were those American fan magazines like ‘Fantastic Films’ and ‘Starlog,’ and I still remember the shock, the impact of seeing the first frames, the first pictures coming out of ‘Blade Runner.’
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I’m so grateful that actually became a reality – and it became a reality in a small town.
I lived in Minnesota in a small town.
I’ve always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t know quite how I was going to get there because I come from a small town called Simpsonville, South Carolina.
Although I missed home, North Carolina is a spectacular place to spend four months. Wilmington has a great downtown area. It is not too small town or too big city. The people were really welcoming and nice. The weather was lovely.
Being from a small town my parents wanted me to become an IAS officer but being an actor I lived the life of everyone. I’ve been a cop, a hardliner politician, a magician, a watchman, a don, a smuggler, an officer all in one life!
My background is a small town with no movie theater. So… I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.
I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I felt like an outsider, and since I didn’t know of LGBT people – much less LGBT black women – living happy, healthy, and successful lives, I didn’t believe I could ever marry or have a child.
Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.
For myself, I’m still little Joanna from the hood – from a small town in Poland, and I’m still having my goals, my dreams.
I grew up in a very small town, on a farm. There was not even a TV in my house at that time. I didn’t have much connection with the outside world and couldn’t see martial arts. When I was 10 or 12, that’s when we got our first TV. We only had maybe two channels. At 16 years old, I remember watching Marco Ruas on TV.
I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn’t matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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.
Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there’s also something grounding about coming from a small town.
Coming from a small town of Mexico, Missouri, we got 11,000 people. Never seen a celebrity.
Tyrone, I think they’re taking to festivals. I don’t know which festivals it will be at. It’s like a buddy picture. It’s a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler.
I grew up in a small town outside Philadelphia and went to the local high school, where I ran track all four years.
I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It’s somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both.
I grew up in a small town, I was the only redhead other than my brother.
I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.
With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
I’m from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn’t think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don’t know what’s next.
The Champions League was something very distant for us. I grew up in a very small town with 50,000 inhabitants, and it was a way of being able to watch my idols or people I admired play football on television.
Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.
I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.
Most of my shows have shown the transition of a character from a small town to the big city.
I’m a small town kid from Uhrichsville, Ohio.
I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don’t write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles.
Teenage girls read in packs. It’s true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.
Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It’s truly a small town with a huge backyard.
I had gone from a small town in the eastern corner of India to San Francisco, and I was very lucky to get that.
When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.
I grew up in a pretty small town in a rural area in southwestern Saskatchewan, close to the Montana border. You either work the oil rigs, or you farm, or you ranch.
It’s so hard to make noise coming from a small town that by the time you start branding yourself, you’ve grown in a certain way.
If you’re in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that’s just cool. It’s worth it because you become more educated in something.
I’m a kid from a small town in West Texas, and I’ve gotten to travel the world. I got to live all over the world.
Because we’re in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we’ve been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
I live in a very small town and now that I’ve closed down my studio, I’m working at home.
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.
