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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
Michael Ondaatje

Trust, Time, Human

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.
Susana Martinez

Girl, America, Become

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.
Susana Martinez

Girl, Become, Growing

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
David Arquette

Work, Business, Lie

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.
Taryn Manning

Through, Process, Struggling

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
Arthur Keith

Life, Live, End

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
Margot Kidder

Movies, Mom, Singing

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.
Robert Wagner

Work, Long, Working

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
Alison Bechdel

Mother, Father, Local

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.
Joe Jonas

Love, Family, Movies

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.
James Cameron

Through, Small, Away

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
Alex Kapranos

Music, Somebody, Side

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.
Matthew Rhys

Find, Here, Spirits

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
Dick Van Dyke

Home, Business, Friend

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.
Paul Hawken

Live, Play, Kids

It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
Natalie Gulbis

School, Fun, Players

I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, 'I really want to play this guy!'
John C. McGinley

Great, Down, Play

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
Mark Hoppus

Car, Mom, Friend

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.
John Shelby Spong

Gay, Control, Fact

This town was built on nepotism.
Damon Wayans

Nepotism, Built

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
Mary Wesley

Walk, Move, Sensible

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.'
Russ Feingold

Love, Used, Somebody

If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
Matt Cameron

Try, Her, Definitely

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
Ann Richards

Women, Black, Country

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
Mary MacLane

Life, Family, Old

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
Chris Isaak

Money, Travel, Thought

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
Lee Ann Womack

Music, Thinking, Country

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
Alan Jackson

Music, Age, Family

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.
Bruce Babbitt

Said, Finally, West

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.
Hermann Maier

Quite, Middle, Moved

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