Taylor Swift
Singer, Songwriter
"I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town"
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Towns
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John Green
Author, YouTuber
"The town was paper, but the memories were not."
Sadie Frost
Actress
"My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town."
Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo."
Faith Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town."
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"If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."
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"It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win."
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"Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns."
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"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."
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"If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."
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"[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions."
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"You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town."
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"[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful."
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"The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere."
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"Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another."
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"A paper town for a paper girl."
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"Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town."
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"We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination."
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"You will go to the paper towns and never come back."
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"Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place."
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"I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors."
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"To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others."
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"This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns"
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"The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does."
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"A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town."
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