“If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.” PeopleIfsStillsPlayShowsGuyTurnsReligiousGoneFansTownsRadioMainstream Author:Jason Aldean
“When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.” ShowsMembersTownsHarmResilienceSmall Town Author:Louise Erdrich
“Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of beauty out of themselves. If a good fairy came and offered me back my youth, asking me which gifts I would rather have, those to make visible a thing which exists but which no man has ever seen before, or the genius needed to create, in a style of architecture never imagined before, the great Town Hall in which we are dining tonight, I might be tempted to choose the latter.” IfsMenLooksUseShowsMightScienceArtistExistenceStyleYouthGeniusNeededScientistTownsAskingArchitectureTemptationVisibleFairyLatterTonightHallsTemptedDining Author:Max Perutz
“A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.” IfsFirstsWellsCountryShowsMotherBoysSawsFrontsSonDadSittingTownsMotherhoodAwfulQuartersTickets Author:Art Linkletter
“What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful.” IfsThinkingShouldChildrenImportantShowsProblemYoungWealthTownsOur ChildrenGratefulMy ChildrenYour ChildrenNo ProblemBeggingBrazil Author:Uri Geller
“I come from a very small, poor town just outside of the Chicago area and I know what it's like to dream and accomplish some of your goals, but I would never want to do a show where I am preaching to anyone because I do not like being preached at. I want to learn right along with my audience and every show will be a collaborative effort. I am so thankful to Debra Lee and everyone at the BET Network for providing me with this unique opportunity and platform.” KnowsWantShowsDreamOpportunityGoalPoorEffortAudienceUniqueAreasTownsAccomplishChicagoPlatformsProvidingPreachingUnique OpportunitiesCollaborative Effort Author:Keke Palmer
“Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!” DifferentShowsTownsEightTexasWowWardrobeTheatrical Author:LeAnn Rimes