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“Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.”

Thinking Knows Men Looks Stills Shows Remember Games Audience Wonderful Towns Mad Admire Cables Broadcasting Mad Men Advertisers

Author:Leslie Moonves

“My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.”

Firsts Remember Parent Towns Length Hospitals Hospitality Mississippi Memphis Charleston

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.”

People Ifs Remember Names Towns Assuming Small Town

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”

“In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.”

People Book Remember Used House Happened Particular Towns Cathedrals

Author:James Hilton

“The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. Its a very loud title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.”

People Giving Mean Shows Remember Names Chance Forever Connections Towns Great Things Titles Loud Turned Off Cougars

Author:Dan Byrd

“Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.”

Ifs Would Be Remember Games Heard Towns Stores Gas Stations Saturday Small Town Lawns Downtown Nebraska Gas Stations Mowing Mowing The Lawn Living In A Small Town

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.”

Ifs Way Remember Values Lost Environment Childhood Towns Impression Small Town Rest Of Your Life Lost Friend

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that no one had ever read it or knew about it. Then one day in her local library she found cards for one or two of my other books. They were full of names- the books were borrowed all the time. She resented this a bit and then walked around the town looking in everybody's face and wondering if they were the ones who were reading my books. That is someone I write for.”

Ifs Writing Two Book Remember Faces Girl Reading Found Names Bits Wonder One Day Letters Towns Library Locals Cards Borrowed

Author:J. P. Donleavy

“My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out.”

People World Has Beens Stories Feelings Might School Remember Left Grows Felt Parent Chance Growing Up Towns Might Have Been Integrated Left Out St Patrick St Patrick's Day

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I was the shepherd, so I was pulling the sheep around town, down Main Street. I thought that was the most awesome, coolest thing ever.”

Littles Remember Church Streets Towns Sheep Pulling Shepherds Main Street Little Towns Nativity Most Awesome

Author:Chris Tomlin

“I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.”

Knows Ends Done Shows Feelings Remember Fans College Towns Clubs Tiny Gigs Circuits Dead Ends

Author:Iggy Pop

“I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old Vic in London and we were at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and I walked on stage and I've got an opening speech that begins: "Agamemnon, how if he had boils?" And I went on and said: "Agamemnon..." And a woman in the front row just went 'tut'. I thought: "I've only done four syllables, give us a chance!" I got one word out and the audience were already tutting. It was worse than any heckle I ever had doing comedy. So, I'll stick to gnomes.”

Ifs Giving Said Done Running Remember Chance Audience Comedy Four Stage Fronts Speech Towns Sticks Starting London Theatre Opening One Word Syllables Gnome Agamemnon Give Us A Chance

Author:Matt Lucas

“I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.”

People Want Giving Looks Stills Remember Like You Towns Shoulders Look At Me Small Town Remember Me

Author:John Newman

“I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in Africa, because I remember after I got back some of the people told me that Mayor Dura of our town said he just wished they would boil me in tar.”

People Knows Said Remember Towns Presses Mayors Our Town

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in mythological and perhaps in very real terms - of mixed innocence and sin. It is seen by townsfolk as idyllic, lazy, free of urban crime and social problems. But those who grow up in the country can tell stories that often surprise those who grow up in the towns.”

“I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."”

Country Seems Eye Remember Moving Song Lines Towns Bills Raised Cake Snakes Pits Blink Dwellers Smog

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".”

Remember Heard Criticism Towns Dare Biblical Remember When Disdain

Author:Elie Wiesel

“All I can do when I'm on stage is do a show where when I come back into town they cannot possibly afford to miss the show because they remember how fun it was.”

I Can Shows Remember Fun Can Do Stage Missing Towns

Author:Jay Mohr

“There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to mentor him in the ministry, and something supposedly happened in town.And this young man was jailed. I remember my father lamenting and saying, well, regardless of what happened, he's human; he's human like the rest of us and he deserves, to be heard and to be seen.”

Men Trying Humans Wells Said Wanted Remember Young Father Community Happened Heard Deserve Towns Ministers Young Man Mentor Ministry Our Community

Author:David C. Driskell

“For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.”

Men Years Remember Used Next Church Forever Grew Mom Grew Up Towns My Mom Active Drag Baptists Church Service

Author:Moby

“I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.”

Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.”

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Author:Dylan Thomas

“... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.”

People World Needs Earth Together Remember Values Hate Evil White Poor Race Millions Color Labor Rivers Hatred Towns Slavery Injustice Creeds Not Alone Mills White Race

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.”

Source: Gilead: A Novel

“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

“I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?”

Knows World Believe May Enough Lasts Remember Lying Courses Born Died Towns Surprise Raised Noise Mess Sickness Crowded Swamps

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers rising nearby. It is a good place to go to walk and talk in whispers. Following the little hill that rises from the park to a small clearing which overlooks the statue of the armless general on his bronze steed, most of us later remember this spot as the first place we knew we might be in love.”

Firsts Believe Littles Stills Might Remember Night Left Stars Walks Secret Towns Following Spots Hills Parks Rising Statues Good Place Clearing Places To Go Bronze Skyscraper Our Town

Book:The Boy Detective Fails

Source: The Boy Detective Fails

“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.”

People Thinking Way Persons Different Sometimes Remember Towns Smell

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.”

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