I figured that if anyone could be wildly popular in one town, then that could be replicated everywhere, all you have to do is get the word out.
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
I wanna be the ambassador to Chimichanga Flavor Town.
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Now there's a grown-up swinging town.
They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony.
Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.
I first read [Wendell Berry] short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me. " They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois. Then I discovered that, much like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.
Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s. . and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.
I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.
Is it. . . dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.
That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.