I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
All these older kids here, and I’m the only one from a town that’s so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you’d run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.
Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.
Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.
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.
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
I modelled my looks on the town tramp.
Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.
At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone’s got five security guards. You can’t talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, ‘Hey, the rednecks are in town!’
Imagine Earth as a crime-ridden town, and there is one safe house. How do you keep that safe house, America, always safe? It is called vigilance.
When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.
So often at home in the West Village, I’m like, ‘Why aren’t I allowed a horse?’ I would keep a horse in a stable in my apartment, and I would fit him with rubber shoes, and we’d just roll him out. If I needed to go to a meeting somewhere, I’d just get on my horse and go across town.
I’m probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don’t wear a suit. I don’t carry a briefcase. I don’t wear a tie. I’m fairly casual. I haven’t got a big office, and it’s in a very ordinary part of town. I’d much prefer to downplay than impress.
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
As ubiquitous as the brands of the warehouse clubs are – Costco, BJ’s and Sam’s – they’re not everywhere. If you have less than a million people in your town, or less than 500K, you might never get access to wholesale savings.
I have nothing but the best memories of growing up in New Jersey. Of course, I grew up in a nice town, a suburb. But Tenafly was right next to Englewood, which had a tremendous amount of racial tension in the ’60s. So I was aware of the real world.
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don’t know what it’s like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
I’m kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.
It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‘Marathon’ or ‘All Money’ or ‘Crenshaw’ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.
My kids need to be around me. And the times that I’m out of town, if I’m not too busy, they can come to me.
They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
We know there’s no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!
I come from a little town of 7,000 people, and everyone in my family played football.
In New York it seems like there’s no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.
There’s so many great matches that you can think of. I could fantasy book all kinds of stuff, you know, fight a few family members. If we could have Umaga back, I would love to wrestle him in any arena in any town just because of how good he was.
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive – like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable – there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.
As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I’ve been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
Orson Welles’s second ‘I-did-it’ should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
I’m very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it’s Valentine’s Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends’ boyfriends are away, or someone’s in town, or someone had a baby, I cook.
We still have community, but we don’t seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother’s down the street, they’re not in arm’s length.
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.
I always thought I’d buy my mother a house if I ever became successful – a big, beautiful house on the nicest street in town. It didn’t exactly work out that way. I was still borrowing money from her in my 40s.
I know this is rather trivial – I will not be very deep about this – but it’s great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, ‘Okay,’ instead of, ‘You have to wait two months.’
I saw ‘On The Town’ about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.
Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.
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.
I’m from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She’s held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail.
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
I literally came to L.A. like every actor does from this little town with this big dream, and I’m living in it now. It’s mind-blowing.
I lived an idyllic ‘Huckleberry Finn’ life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’-esque.
I’m just a Chicago actor who’s a playwright. Even with the success of ‘August,’ the people in town who come to our theater know me by sight, because they’ve seen me onstage so much.
In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
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.
There is something about being in a remote town where anything other than green fields, trees and Saturday football club is very exciting and thrilling.
Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.
