#suburban

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before. ↗

— Peter Bergman

#bowels #city #had #hadn #just

I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#became #different #different kinds #drama #fit

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#class family #family #i #me #middle-class

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen. ↗

— John Hughes

#early #embarrassing #presbyterian #prose #sort

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#children #compound #died #end #far

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#anyway #areas #collar #counties #fight

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother. ↗

— Derek Luke

#black #black or white #colors #everybody #father

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#burglars #curtains #dull #friend #grew

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. ↗

— David Simon

#baltimore #cities #city #convict #criminal