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“Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.”

People Thinking Whole Industry Degrees Six Hollywood Towns Small Town Bumps Kevin

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.”

Done Social Can Do Community Industry Built Hollywood Towns Phones Traditional Mail Phone Calls Afar Small Communities

Author:Jeffrey Skoll

“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

“What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.”

Men Art Country Cities Industry Thousand Towns Improvement Forests Good Man Covered Republic Farms Savages Prosperous

Book:Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.”

“The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men and women, boys and girls, in the sex industry. That is the most horrific, horrific thing that's happening and it's happening in all of our towns here in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, in Paris, all over the world, and I think that's really what has to be addressed.”

“I'm honestly so incredibly grateful for every opportunity I get in film industry. Don't forget! I was born in a tiny little country in a small town and here I am working in Canada and America and it's incredible.”

Littles Country America Film Opportunity Born Forget Industry Towns Grateful Incredibles Tiny Honestly Canada Small Town Here I Am Film Industry

Author:Famke Janssen

“I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.”

Cities Industry Towns Factories

Author:David Lynch

“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.”

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Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.”

Matter Seems Subjects Industry Towns Los Angeles Facility Disadvantages Subject Matter Personnel

Author:Carter Burwell

“It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.”

Bigs Used Gone Industry Towns Used To Be Elegance Big Families

Author:Cesar Romero

“Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.”

Animal Industry Towns Pet Jungle Wildlife

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.”

Love Dies House Challenges Sky Streets Industry Towns Pollution Traffic His Love Acid Choke Rubber Smog

Author:John Steinbeck