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Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage. -- Robert Englund
Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks. -- Dorothy Hamill
I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind. -- Joanne Woodward
The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town! -- Vera Nazarian
Is it okay to go the roof of the tallest building in your town and jerk off into the street? -- Eugene Mirman
Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire. -- Hedda Hopper
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. -- Hedda Hopper
My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall. -- John Dyer
If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something. -- Frank Deford
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory! -- Joseph Stalin
Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere. -- Paul Ryan
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. -- Thomas Malthus
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome. -- Kate Mosse
I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town. -- Steve Martin
When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance. -- Paul Goodman
If you want to have world peace - peace in your family, peace in your town and peace in your own bedroom - you simply begin with whatever creates peace within yourself. This vibration will go out from you in waves, and these waves have a very positive impact on the world. -- Christiane Northrup
My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town. -- George Burns
I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town. -- Michael Lynton
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. -- Hedda Hopper
In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along. -- Charlie Wilson
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night. -- Bruno Schulz
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky. -- Lynne Cheney
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 Thomas Sladek
We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work. -- Adam McKay
There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck. -- Kami Garcia
I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes. -- Herta Muller
At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town. -- Jesse Jackson
And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture. -- K. Sello Duiker
[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town. -- Kurt Vonnegut
We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish. -- Russ Feingold
Only whispers can tell of the sweet dreams we knew so well. I'll see you around our dear ocean town. -- Adam Young
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. -- Hermann Hesse
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? -- Mark Twain
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town. -- Elie Wiesel
Growing up, my Mexican town of Monterrey was so safe, we wouldn't lock our cars or our front doors, and that is gone. -- Andrea Suarez Paz
You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst! -- Agatha Christie
I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car. -- Mary Sue Terry
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young. -- Bruce Springsteen
In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't. -- Jon Bon Jovi
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks -- Patty Duke
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks. -- Patty Duke
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. -- Steven Chu
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween. -- Danny Elfman
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