“I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.” ThinkingKnowsPlayWantedAmericaActorsMiddleGrewGrew UpMy FamilyPrincessBridesPrincess BrideMiddle America Author:Missi Pyle
“If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.” IfsThinkingShowsAmericaRealizingDoubtMiddleRepublicanRaisesConservativeRadioLike MeChineseHostKoreaRomneyPutinNorth KoreaIntimidatedTalk ShowsMiddle America Author:Bryan Fischer
“I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.” PeopleBelieveAmericaI BelieveImagineMiddleHollywoodMiddle America Author:Steven Levitan
“The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.” FeelsKidsAmericaCausesWalksMiddleListeningMusic IsHearingMallsNew MusicMiddle America Author:Ester Dean
“Mitt Romney said that he liked to fire people. Well, there's a pretty good message to send to Middle America. When Rick Perry heard that, he said, 'Well that's nothing. I like to execute people.'” PeopleWellsSaidAmericaFireHeardMiddleMessagesRomneyMiddle America Author:David Letterman
“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.” MenWayFeelsAmericaSongTurnsMemoriesCitiesBoysDarknessStreetsMiddleFieldsPromiseShadowMachinesTownsLipsHungerAwakeningDustMaturityHeatFactoriesAwkwardCoalCrackedRoaringFurnacesOur TownCity StreetsMiddle America Author:Sherwood Anderson
“My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.” PeopleRunningAmericaGrowing UpGrowingMiddleStyleBootsCowboyJeansOklahomaPersonal StyleCowboy BootMiddle America Author:Suzy Amis
“I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's because the Internet. I think they're exposed to so much. All the men talked about how much they love their wife, which I don't hear all the time in art communities.” PeopleThinkingMenWayArtAmericaCommunityWifeMiddleChangedHe ManInternetExposedOpen MindedMiddle America Author:John Waters