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I saw my hometown burning that day. -- Rodney King
I never wore high heels in my hometown. -- Liu Wen
I've always wanted to win in my hometown. -- Paula Creamer
America is my country and Paris is my hometown. -- Gertrude Stein
In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal. -- Hannibal Buress
I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound. -- Evel Knievel
I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del. -- Tom Douglas
Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history. -- Fred Willard
I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi. -- Maria Sharapova
Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart. -- Kenneth Choi
The first thing I do when I get back to my hometown, San Antonio, is eat Whataburger. -- Austin Mahone
In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up. -- Drew Holcomb
I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world. -- LeBron James
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown. -- Alexandra Lara
In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?! -- Jenson Button
The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street. -- Gary Kovacs
My inspiration is my hometown. -- Thomas Jones
In my hometown memories are fresh. -- Adele
America is my country and Paris is my hometown -- Gertrude Stein
In my hometown, the sky seemed endless . . . but there was nothing to see. -- Ryohgo Narita
I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. -- Li Bingbing
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. -- Katharine Graham
I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown. -- Princess Superstar
Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song. -- Kenny Chesney
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown. -- Alexandra Lara
It's a big thing back in my hometown about me being here. There are a lot of people behind me. -- Brandon Jacobs
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids. -- Dolly Parton
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order. -- Mike Huckabee
When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am? -- Azar Nafisi
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans. -- Lady Gaga
I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year. -- Junot Diaz
I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective. -- David Ross
This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players. -- Ken Griffey, Jr.
I was thinking about the armor, personally. I think it would go great in my hometown. I don't know. I'm not sure. Hopefully. -- Eleanor Tomlinson
I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown. -- Kenny Wallace
Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day. -- Danielle Bradbery
Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California. -- Eric Burdon
I don't like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they're all about. -- Tank Abbott
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. -- B. B. King
I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va. -- Jim Toomey
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. -- Joseph Campbell
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. -- Jack Nicklaus
I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me. -- Columba Bush
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
The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out. -- Natalia Vodianova
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. -- Stacy Schiff
People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses. -- Liu Wen
Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso. -- Guy Lafleur
I had an amazing time on 'Stargate: Atlantis', and a really great run on that show, which was shot in my hometown. It was kind of a dream job. -- Jewel Staite
I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it. -- Deshaun Watson
I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown! -- Paul Prudhomme
I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school. -- Emily Ratajkowski
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. -- Bruce Springsteen
I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that. -- Taylor Swift
I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown. -- Tucker Carlson
My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead. -- Tayari Jones
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead. -- Tayari Jones
I'm honored to serve as mayor of my hometown where our founders started America with three simple words: 'We, the people.' And when they said 'people' they didn't mean 'corporations.' -- Michael Nutter
Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan. -- Michael Moore
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961 -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive. -- Gemma Arterton
I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person. -- Patton Oswalt
I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much. -- Matthew Perry
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else. -- Salman Rushdie
There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now. -- Steven Knight
I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California. -- Jill Scott
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. -- Mary Karr
I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people. -- Maud Adams
I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me. -- Clay Aiken
Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia. -- Olivia Newton-John
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself. -- Julianna Baggott
I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast. -- Katie Price
Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown. -- Natasha Trethewey
[Pablo]Picasso was born in my hometown, in MÃ¡laga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left MÃ¡laga, practically at the same time and age that I did. -- Antonio Banderas
When I get to go play in my hometown, it's almost one of the toughest times because I got so many people to cater to and then a lot of people that think they're supposed to be catered to. -- Lee Brice
While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
My inspiration is my hometown. I feel that because I'm representing my very overlooked region of Virginia, I have to keep accomplishing my goals to show everyone there that you can truly become whatever you believe with hard work and dedication. -- Thomas Jones
I got to work with [Carlos] Santana, who's been my idol forever. When I was 18, I got up with him in Australia and jammed with him. That was an amazing moment because I got up in front of my hometown crowd. -- Orianthi
If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there. -- Agnieszka Radwanska
The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England. -- Richard Dawson
I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit. -- Olivia Newton-John
I didn't take a break from making music, but I took some time away from the "need to sell it" thing, and moved to my hometown, UmeÃ¥. I took my time there, exploring music on my own, on a very personal level. -- Tove Styrke
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again. -- Mary Karr
My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there. -- Sarah Dessen
There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is uncannily similar to that found in Pakistan, and I hope to one day make a film that follows similar themes. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more. -- Joe Manganiello
I was 19 when I first auditioned for 'American Idol.' I'd never been on an airplane; I'd never been outside of my hometown, except to go to Myrtle Beach. I'm 22 now. I'm learning a lot about life, and it's all in front of the cameras. -- Kellie Pickler
I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. -- Rick Danko
Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces. -- Garrett Hedlund
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy. -- Barry Humphries
I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy. -- LeBron James
God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that. -- Bill Parcells
Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit. -- Robinson Cano
When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over. -- Krysten Ritter
Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them. -- Roger Ebert
There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same. -- Richard Hell
Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out there. -- William Moseley
When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box. -- Audra McDonald
I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there. -- Drew Goddard
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life. -- Ed Asner
I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York. -- Stephanie Miller
New York is my, you know, second hometown. -- Masaharu Morimoto
My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things. -- Faith Ford
My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases. -- Ang Lee
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back. -- Fred Allen
Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable. -- Yao Ming
All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing. -- Pete Seeger
My hometown I grew up in in Michigan is really tiny, and they are so excited for all of my adventures my whole life. -- Toni Trucks
My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you. -- Carrie Underwood
That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point? -- Mayer Hawthorne
I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home. -- Debra Messing
I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers. -- Matt Kemp

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