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I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. -- Nicholas Sparks
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right. -- Steve Harvey
The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders. -- John Lawson
Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform. -- Lorrie Fair
I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh? -- Nicholas Sparks
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. -- Skeet Ulrich
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina. -- Al Lewis
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. -- Catfish Hunter
The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession. -- Rick Dees
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9 -- Josh Lucas
This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones. -- Jesse Helms
Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it. -- Nikki Haley
North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending. -- Mel Watt
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. -- Althea Gibson
Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase. -- Richard Burr
Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world. -- Donna Rice Hughes
We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other. -- Mike Easley
Im always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the Presidents plan have not been invited to the discussion. -- Mel Watt
The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. -- Ezra Stiles
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. -- Charles Kuralt
If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover. -- Maria Menounos
If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it. -- Lorrie Fair
John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary. -- Mark Shields
I have a lot of friends in South Carolina. -- Hillary Clinton
South Carolina is a great place to be from. -- Tim Scott
Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. -- John Shelton Reed
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult. -- Pat Conroy
My music came up from the soil of North Carolina, -- Earl Scruggs
South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money. -- Charles Foster Johnson
I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling. -- Ken Jeong
and I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive, -- Chuck Klosterman
North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something? -- Clay Aiken
North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving. -- David H. Murdock
I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am. -- Dean Smith
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. -- Pat Conroy
As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority. -- Mike Easley
As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority. -- Mike Easley
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. -- James L. Petigru
We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina. -- Nikki Haley
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina. -- Constance Baker Motley
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina -- Constance Baker Motley
Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas. -- Trevor Dunn
The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. -- John Lawson
I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash. -- Eddie Glaude
In 1996, a Republican governor in South Carolina tried to take the flag down. He was voted out. -- Sean Hannity
North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces. -- Robin Hayes
People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth. -- Sonny Vaccaro
I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends. -- Scotty McCreery
Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.' -- Jim Rash
And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer! -- Kiera Cass
In South Carolina, Senator John Edwards won handily, fulfilling his promise to win every state he was born in. -- Jon Stewart
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina. -- Chris Hughes
I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina. -- Lindsey Graham
My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there. -- Jon Lester
South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital. -- Eliza Lucas
Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. -- Elton John
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9. -- Josh Lucas
I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do. -- Kay Hagan
North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Donald Trump has more delegates than anybody. He won all 50 delegates in South Carolina. He`s got a strong lead. -- Katy Tur
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. -- Pat Conroy
It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something. -- Jesse Helms
Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine. -- Aasif Mandvi
North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall. -- James Van Der Beek
I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina. -- Billy Graham
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with. -- Josh Mandel
The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong. -- Trey Gowdy
Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes. -- David Sedaris
North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right. -- Lizz Winstead
I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God. -- John Shelby Spong
No Republican has ever won South Carolina and Iowa or New Hampshire, as Trump has, without going on to win the nomination. -- Chuck Todd
Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state. -- Donald Trump
Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings. -- Ari Shapiro
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. -- Stanley Hauerwas
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities. -- Danielle Brooks
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners. -- Edward Ball
I said those things about gay rights and abortion on opposite day. I cannot BELIEVE you don't have opposite day in North Carolina! -- Mitt Romney
North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point. -- Julianne Malveaux
Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools. -- Steve Spurrier
Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect. -- Bob Etheridge
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. -- Strom Thurmond
Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food. -- Gaines Adams
The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of. -- William Perry
It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists. -- Kurt Busch
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years. -- Elizabeth Edwards
The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735. -- Andrew Tobias
Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions. -- Anna Camp
As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina. -- Michael Emerson
As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina. -- Michael Emerson
Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina. -- Nikki Haley
I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power. -- Jesse Jackson
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works. -- Mike Easley
I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol. -- Abraham Whipple
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works. -- Mike Easley
Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms. -- Ashley Scott
No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am. -- Chris Paul
South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House, But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami. -- Chuck Todd
I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions. -- Anna Camp
I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it! -- Maddie Hasson
In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing. -- Nikki Haley
I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders. -- Pat Conroy
I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in a camper with my parents and us six kids. -- Michael Strahan
Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina. -- Kelly Link
I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan. -- Hannah Storm
Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work. -- Jackson Brundage
The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University. -- Fred Thompson
I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me. -- Kathy Reichs
Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump`s the clear front-runner now for their party`s nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course, his big win in South Carolina. -- Chris Matthews
We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina. -- Mark Sanford
I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina. -- Shay Carl
Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it. -- Nikki Haley
If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it. -- Brian Roberts
After [Donald] Trump has won in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Republicans are crazy and are about to blow the White House if we don`t rally to stop him. -- Haley Barbour
Thousands of dead fish have now washed up on shore along the coast of South Carolina. Today the NRA said that this wouldn't have happened if those fish had guns. -- Jay Leno
We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics. -- Zach Galifianakis

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