#town

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#art #because #cinema #cinemas #climate

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories. ↗

— John Sladek

#anyway #either #had #hall #hang

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#appear #artists #big #challenge #companies

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me. ↗

— Anna Nicole Smith

#i #knew #living #me #small

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#benefits #children #come #dependent #desperate

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

#been #burned #church #control #deal

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy. ↗

— Layne Staley

#decadent #i #like #los #los angeles

America is my country and Paris is my hometown. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#country #hometown #paris

Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. “Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #downtown #dream #lake #law-school

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#country #equally #essential #importance #necessary