#town

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12. ↗

— January Jones

#dad #grades #gym #health #i

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#because #came #club #dance #days

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#home town #house #movie #remote #small

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

— Garrison Keillor

#decades #forgot #improve #lake #little

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#begins #city #comes #end #found

Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…” He glanced over at her, and she felt her whole body warm from it. She remembered that look. It made her feel naked inside and out, but not in a creepy kind of way. In a way that felt…. Free. “If what you say is true, and I guess it has to be, I think I know why we’re … together,” he said. “I think I’d fall for you no matter what, Claire. You’re kind of awesome. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #funny #ghost-town #humor #michael-glass

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#bye #dancing #i #little #me

I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#faces #feel #focused #i #myopic

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#feel #guys #hometown #i #know

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#growing #growing up #necessarily #quantify #small