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“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

School Acting Half Crazy Football Grew Grew Up High School Towns Texas Small Town

Author:Jesse Plemons

“Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.”

World Art Country Shows Film House Half Towns Climate Very Good Size Cinema Smallest Sweden Good Films Norway Small Countries

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.”

Thinking Able Half Fronts Towns Cameras Naked Shy Introverted

Author:Marisa Berenson

“Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.”

Way Fall Half Streets Building Revolution Industry Shadow Rivers Towns Noise Bridges Squares Crossings Civics Systematic Steep Bewildered Marshes Bluffs Confluence Refinery

Book:The Shadow of Innsmouth

Source: The Shadow of Innsmouth

“The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.”

World Two Found Perfect Half Moon Towns Fundamentals Hills Candle Burned Transparent Luminous Polished Unleashed A Perfect World Two Of Us Uncovering Unbound

Book:Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

“Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...”

Men Firsts Ends Born Half Too Much Dog Beats Towns Kicks Covering Dead Man

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.”

Thinking Purpose House President White Half Magic Streets Towns Meetings Strikes Kingdoms Halls White House Behalf Invitations Phony Main Street Magic Kingdom

Author:Newt Gingrich

“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

Space Cities Half Technology Five Land Connections Towns Edges Enormous Contact Zone Wilderness Settlement Satellites Disconnection Time Zones Half Time

Author:B. W. Powe

“There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.”

Source: Eugenie Grandet

“My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.”

Half Journey Feet Fronts Wall Kissing Towns Clouds Towers Prophecy Wanton Our Town

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8

“I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!”

People Giving Mind Fall Left Pay Half Careers Grace Built Roots Let Me Give Me Towns Tables Envy Restaurants Los Angeles Spectacular Unemployed Back Again Falls From Grace

Author:Mickey Rourke

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.”

People Ifs Book Matter Done Three Reading Understanding Half Study Hundred Consequence Capacity Towns Determined Lawyer Features Principal Salem

Book:The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”

Easy Half Virtue Ignorance Proud Citizens Achievement Intellectual Towns Artistic Dozen Dubious

Book:Main Street

Source: Main Street

“The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.”

Wells Three Father Half Study Judging Towns Eight Tutor Our Town

Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“My mom had this inate ability. Whatever town my mother moved to, the second she walked into town, she would instantly attract the alpha loser of that town. This guy was not a good guy. This guy was half O.J. Simpson and half O.J. Simpson. Scott Peterson sprinkles on the top, a side of Robert Blake. You know, not a good guy.”

Knows Mother Guy Sides Ability Half Mom Towns Moved My Mom Loser This Guy Good Guy Blake Alphas Sprinkles

Author:Christopher Titus

“You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.”

Knows Real Might School Grows My Own Half Growing Up Towns Everyday Sexy I Realized Suits Cute Riding Mexican San Francisco Sailor Own Business Humming Minding My Own Business

Author:Al Madrigal

“I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.”

People Way Grows Stuff Hours Half Growing Up New York Grew Band Grew Up Towns One Way Better Place Small Town Touring Nazareth

Author:Daughn Gibson

“There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.”

Littles Two Hours Half Towns Tiny Stuck Little Towns

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.”

People Knows Two Sometimes Hours Half Gone Generations Towns Seven Borders Mexican Descent Half Hours Antonio San Antonio

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.”

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.”

Knows World Firsts Looks Lasts Half Morning Fields Solitude Happenings Sitting First Time Window Towns Train Evening Shakes Pool Solitary Pale Last Time Traveller Carts Vanishing Mules

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore." Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.”

Said Done Eye Remember Evil Half Towns Lists Dresden

Author:Jim Butcher

“Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk”

Littles Body Guy Left Half Wonder Too Much Blood Car Clothes Towns Leaving Naked Unconscious Get Back Anxious Clay Bleeding Salad Malls Trunks Toronto Cain Antonio

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“I broke that town in half like a wooden match.”

Half Towns Broke

Author:Charles Bukowski

“His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs”

Ifs Made Father Half Towns Sticks Paint Jonah Jonah Griggs

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...”

Firsts Ideas Body Running Half Letters Towns Obsessed Good Ideas Killers Cop Clue Addict Hunts Serials Psycho Serial Killer Recovering Deranged

Book:Evil at Heart

Source: Evil at Heart

“In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.”

People Mean School Half Clothes High School Towns Shirts My Time Sweat Jeans T Shirt Dressed Up Mean People Bikinis Juicy Laid Back

Author:Lauren Conrad

“My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.”

Years Half Five Four Months Towns Bills Busy Beach Restaurants Four Years Tourists Tourism Myrtle Months Of The Year

Author:Mickey Gilley

“Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.”

People Men World Way Wells Has Beens Enough Cities Half Century Creation Genius Shots Towns Performing Why Not Village Originality Closing Astonishing Brilliance American Cities Music Man

Author:Meredith Willson

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