Quotes with walled-town

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  • Beeban Kidron Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Truman Capote Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Bill Kurtis First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • William Cowper God made the country and man made the town.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Bill Buford Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • B. B. King Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Arthur Godfrey He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Aldous Huxley Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sandburg Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Brigitte Bardot I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Emily Brontë I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Bruce Coville I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Nelson Algren I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Busy Philipps I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bailee Madison I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Barry Goldwater If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
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  • Sharon Stone If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
    Sharon Stone
    American actress (1958 - )
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