I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn’t much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I’d never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a ‘dude.’
The women’s movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey.
I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.
I remember growing up watching John Hughes movies and watching these white kids from suburban Chicago. I connected to them even though I didn’t live in their environment.
I’m really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It’s a great city to live in. I’m living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there – a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we’re just driving around, going to meetings here and there – it’s lovely!
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian tyranny imaginable.
I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
I didn’t know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student – and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin – suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
I think a lot of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ was about the suburban world that Burton grew up in feeling like an outcast. I feel like there’s no way it’s not at least a little autobiographical from that standpoint. I always liked that.
My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.
It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don’t easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity – and responsibility – to structure their own space to reflect what’s important to them.
My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
The National Endowment for the Arts distributes money to all 50 states, and they try to do their best to distribute to rural and suburban areas. It’s one of the great things about the program. It raises the awareness of culture throughout the population.
My early prose style – this is so embarrassing – was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn’t even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.
In ‘National Geographic,’ you always saw pictures of tribal Africa. And here I am, sitting in Nairobi in our suburban house, watching TV and thinking, ‘Why is it always going to be these tribal people ‘that are the ambassadors of our image?
‘American Horror’ is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
I first got online in the late ’80s when I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. I was a reader, into Jorge Luis Borges, and I found, connected to, and delighted in a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark, that I met online.
I remember going to pre-school, you know, rolling out in the Suburban and my dad bumping all types of rap, so he introduced me to it and from there I just loved it ever since.
My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty.
Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.
‘Serial Mom’ tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn’t like it. The movie was not a success when it came out.
I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.
Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn’t to say that there aren’t parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don’t know them.
The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That’s a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.
When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we’d play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there’s just a great pride there.
Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.
I don’t think we’d be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.
Unless we address our unserved broadband challenges in our urban, suburban, and rural areas, we will not have equitable access for all and achieve the economic recovery that we need.
There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.
I grew up originally in Rochester. It was where I was born and a very tough neighbourhood with a lot of violence. I consider myself lucky. When I was aged 11, in 1998, Dad moved us to a suburban area from what was a ghetto area. It gave me a chance of survival.
I don’t fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they’re former Chicagoans anyway.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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