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“I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm Ray the singing Cajun firefly. New Orleans is my second hometown. I was a deckhand on a riverboat there when I was 18, so I have that Cajun accent down pat. Ray is a lovesick firefly who's near-sighted and falls in love with the Evening Star. Of course, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger will always be favorites of mine too.”

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Author:Jim Cummings

“People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses.”

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Author:Liu Wen

“People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.”

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Author:Mary Karr

“I was thinking about the armor, personally. I think it would go great in my hometown. I don't know. I'm not sure. Hopefully.”

Thinking Knows Hopefully Not Sure Armor Hometown

Author:Eleanor Tomlinson

“If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.”

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“Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.”

Way Home Sweet Proud Supportive Hometown Really Sweet

Author:Gemma Arterton

“Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department in their hometown and driving around said high school as the decades slip past.”

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Author:Dana Gould

“When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.”

Helping Would Be Kids Imagination One Day Library Scottish Hometown

Author:Dolly Parton

“I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.”

World My Own Team Fans Talent Hometown Inspirational Team

Author:LeBron James

“Yeah. When I was 14, my Dad had a radio show with really cool people from Ghent, our hometown, in it. The people who started the R&S techno label, they did a show, and a very well known Techno DJ called Frank de Wulf who was from around there, he did a show, and everybody could do what they wanted. They all started up there.”

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Author:Stephen Dewaele

“My hometown is 30,000 people. It's remote, but it's an oil town, so it's developed. There's definitely a mill mentality: not a lot of people leave. It's a lot of long hours, shift work. Even my Dad, who's a dentist worked hard, because that's what people do up there.”

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Author:Aaron Lines

“There's a song called 'The Lights of My Hometown' that goes back to me growing up a regular kid. I mean, I lived in a town that I loved, but was too small for the dreams I was dreaming. You leave thinking the world has a lot more to offer than your hometown, only to realize years down the road that no matter where you grow up, you will never be able to recreate the innocence and feeling of 'home' anywhere else in the world. No matter who you are, or where that little town is, that's something we all have in common.”

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Author:Aaron Lines

“I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.”

New York Hometown I Love New York

Author:Princess Superstar

“I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.”

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Author:Stephanie Miller

“I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Persons Has Beens Left Imagine Pleasant Hometown

Author:Patton Oswalt

“I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.”

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Author:Jewel

“My inspiration is my hometown. I feel that because I'm representing my very overlooked region of Virginia, I have to keep accomplishing my goals to show everyone there that you can truly become whatever you believe with hard work and dedication.”

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Author:Thomas Jones

“I got to work with [Carlos] Santana, who's been my idol forever. When I was 18, I got up with him in Australia and jammed with him. That was an amazing moment because I got up in front of my hometown crowd.”

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Author:Orianthi

“Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day.”

Wells Wanted One Day Hopefully Hometown Houston Rodeo

Author:Danielle Bradbery

“I was born in northeastern China, where we have the privilege to see forests just out of the window. And I thought, I am going to do something because I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. From that day on, environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.”

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Author:Li Bingbing

“There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.”

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Author:Joseph Dougherty

“I mean, growing up in New Orleans when you're in seventh and eighth grade and you're into music and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock. It definitely speaks to our dorkiness and the similar hometown that we grew up in, the similar sort of schooling we went through and friends we had.”

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Author:Steve Zissis

“At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story.”

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Author:Paolo Bacigalupi

“There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.”

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Author:Richard Hell

“Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia.”

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Author:Olivia Newton-John

“I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.”

Earth Imagine Forests Desert Hometown

Author:Li Bingbing

“My inspiration is my hometown.”

Inspiration Hometown

Author:Thomas Jones

“If people are looking at me in my hometown, then every woman that races against me in the peloton is as well. I can tell you, every one of them now believes that they can do it. When I go to a Cascade or Nature Valley and they race against me, the girls that are say 30 seconds from me at the races are all of a sudden saying 'I'm 30 seconds from gold I mean why can't I do this.'”

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Author:Kristin Armstrong

“I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress." I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.”

“If I'm fortunate enough to play in the NFL, anywhere for anybody would be great. But if I had to pick, it would be the hometown [Atlanta] Falcons because I used to work for them.”

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Author:Deshaun Watson

“I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it.”

Thinking Would Be Fun Team Pressure Hometown

Author:Deshaun Watson

“I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown.”

Age Young Moved Despite Young Age Fascination Hometown Charlotte

Author:Kenny Wallace

“I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school.”

School Born Five High School London Traveled Hometown San Diego

Author:Emily Ratajkowski

“It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty normal college experience, even though it was in my hometown. I really thrived there. I feel like it really suited me and served me well in terms of how I grew up there.”

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Author:Zachary Quinto

“I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.”

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Author:Tucker Carlson

“There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now.”

People Knows Proud Series Fashionable Hometown Blinders

Author:Steven Knight

“When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".”

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Author:Elizabeth Crook

“I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective.”

Wish Perspective Retiring Hometown

Author:David Ross

“For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.”

Knows Men Years Different Cities Changed Old Man Fascination Brooklyn Hometown

Author:El-P

“Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.”

Fighting Fans Crowds Rings Hometown

Author:Celestino Caballero

“There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.”

Country Used Particular Used To Be Exception Chicago Hometown

Author:Barack Obama

“I hadn't really thought about going to college. Nobody in my family went away to school. The other piece of that was I didn't see anybody else in my hometown going to college to give me some kind of influence or something like that you might want to think about. I didn't see any of that. Therefore I thought it was never there. What happened was that my high school coach intervened. Had he not intervened to the measure he intervened, I probably wouldn't have gone.”

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Author:Lenny Moore

“Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations."”

Character Dream Singing Harmony Greek Pens Chorus Hometown

Author:Will Kimbrough

“We've made a huge effort globally and in the US, in getting kids jobs. This is one piece. The South Bronx and inner-city schools need it more than most. It's our hometown; JPMorgan Chase banks a lot of people here. If you see the school, it works. Kids all getting jobs, they're smiling, they're proud of themselves. That's what we need to do in inner-city schools.”

People Kids School Effort Proud Hometown One Piece

Author:Jamie Dimon

“So get this. On 9/11, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's hometown was attacked by the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States. Young men and women - young men and women signed up to serve in the military to fight terrorism. Hillary Clinton went to Washington to get funds to rebuild her city and protect first responders, but Donald Trump was fighting a very different fight. It was a fight to avoid paying taxes so that he wouldn't support the fight against terror.”

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Author:Tim Kaine

“I saw my hometown burning that day.”

Saws Burning Hometown

Author:Rodney King

“You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did.”

Important School Together Hometown

Author:Marianne Faithfull

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