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• A town of narrow streets, old houses, shops curiously low, with little in it to interest any one.

  James Thorne

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• Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

  Garrett Hedlund

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• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there’s always the town gossip – ‘Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?’ So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  Garrett Hedlund

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• Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

  Daryl Hall

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• When we started the show, ‘Dallas’ was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR’s home town.

  Larry Hagman

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• Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

  Howard Stringer

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• You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we’ve turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don’t want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I’m – right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to – to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

  Michael Steele

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• I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It’s a great place to grow up, a real small town.

  Alia Shawkat

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• Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It’s got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.

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• If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you’re casting politicians, you can’t put up posters and have politicians come down.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.

  Julie Salamon

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• I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.

  Ben Shalom Bernanke

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• There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

  Georges Duhamel

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• I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

  Stephen Sprouse

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• So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they’ve been very helpful.

  Jack Markell

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• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

  Garrison Keillor

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• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

  Garrison Keillor

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• When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

  Claire McCaskill

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  God made the country, and man made the town.

  William Cowper

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