“When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.” YoungParentGoes OnMy FamilyTownsWestTexasCircusCemeteryDisneylandWest Texas Author:Jenny Lawson
“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.” SchoolActingHalfCrazyFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolTownsTexasSmall Town Author:Jesse Plemons
“I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'” LittlesCharacterAmericaGuyCenturyTownsOilDrivingHillsTexasFoxes20th CenturyPortSaddestArthurBeverly HillsRefinery Author:G.W. Bailey
“I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.” TownsCuriosityTinyGrantedTexasSmall TownSmall Town LifeOdessa Author:Buzz Bissinger
“In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.” StillsMightActionWhiteBoysGrewGrew UpTownsStoresTexasSouthernGroceriesAffirmative ActionAffirmativeGrocery Stores Author:Bill Moyers
“I am on the road all the time. Whether I'm in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can't tell the difference, and that's good. You don't have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.” I CanBornDifferencesCollegeTownsParisTexasBeing Cool Author:John Waters
“Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.” PlayMotherGuyReadyTownsTexasTrappedBleak Author:John Cusack
“Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing.” TownsTexasFestivalsStrawberriesCrawfish Author:Kevin Fowler
“It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.” LittlesFindingsTownsWorkersLawyerDisasterTexasAmerican HistoryInjuredFeesLittle Towns Author:Ralph Nader
“Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.” ShouldWinningDarknessLateTownsAwardsTexasSmall TownHeartbreaking1930sAshley Author:Justine Larbalestier
“One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.” MindFirstsWellsKindMadeNightBreakAudienceBandSpringTownsCustomersEastConclusionTexasCatastropheCurtainsGigsLoadedCokeLegendaryEast Texas Author:Billy Gibbons
“My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.” MotherFatherTownsAfrican AmericanTexasSmall TownNigeria Author:Kehinde Wiley
“In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More often than not, the insurance company that protects you against this type of lawsuit will settle it with cash and contest it in a court of law.” LawGuyLinesCompanyCasesRecordsCrimeTypeProtectTownsBlueCourtCommittedCriminalsPartnersShootingSettlingTexasCashKillersCopContestsYou AgainProtect YouLawsuitInsurance CompaniesPartners In Crime Author:Errol Morris
“I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.” SchoolProductsGrewTownsPaintCodeAwardsTexasRollingFarmingEaglesWheatCottonAttendingCreeksZipsEagle Scout Author:Rick Perry
“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