809 Local Quotes for You to Enjoy

'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories. Marilyn Hacker

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I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though. Mark Edwards

Music Local Though Detached Pretty Crowd Am

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977. Mark Knopfler

Music Band Own Local Types Dire My Own Until Call Different Formed While Really Many Groups Different Types Played

The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope. Mark Leibovich

The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political careers, I saw people who'd start off in local government, gain experience, move to state government, and then on to federal office. I'd always believed that kind of experience was important. Mark Takano

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It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears. Mark Zandi

Business Programs Local Spend Local Governments Collateral Jobs Enthusiastic About Small Small Business Small Business Owners Prices Disappears Prospects Economy House Forced Households Revenue Falling Governments Owners Cut Use Business Owners Hard Less Homes Loans

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity. Marla Sokoloff

Time Opportunity Recording Local Out More Only Fair Come County Idol Were Options American Artists American Idol Younger Now Playing

I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me. Marlon Wayans

I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths to feed, I think she probably has as nice a life as I have. And she only wants to improve her life, her lifestyle. Martha Stewart

Life Me Waiting School Nice Think Local Kids Diner Only Lifestyle Feed She Improve Mouths Lady Wants Who Her

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology. Martin Puryear

Local Range Magical More Ecology Almost Feels Within Limited Isolated Than Site Landed Much Really Whole

In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments. Marvin Ammori

Service Competition Simple Local Market Local Governments Released Charge Simple Reason Could Federal Prices Study Trade Culprit Governments According Report Commission Lack Explained Customers Dismal Reason Why

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up. Mary Badham

Theatre Mother Birmingham Local Leading Up Where Lady Grew Alabama

The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start. Mary Barra

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When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school. Mary Pope Osborne

Life Time Me World School Free Community Teenager Local Local Community Our Spending Backstage Visit Williams High Dreary High School Seemed Shakespeare More Tennessee Tennessee Williams Free Time Always Real Continue Than Whether Theater Places Worked Acted Play Imaginary

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country. Mary Wesley

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook. Masaharu Morimoto

Best Food People Local Rely Just Ask

Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture. Masayoshi Son

Service You Culture Internet Country Local Like Understand Each

Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge? Matt Bevin

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During my senior year, when I was attending the University of Michigan and getting a drama degree, the Purple Rose Theatre was in its second season. The year before was the company's inaugural season. I, of course, wanted to work there. It was started by a really prominent local actor, Jeff Daniels. Matt Letscher

Work Theatre Degree Year Before Rose Drama Local Prominent Purple Attending Course Michigan Getting Senior Senior Year Wanted Really Jeff Company Season Actor Second Started University

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led. Matt Roper

Work You Garden Local Say Sign Easily High Distraction Distractions See Writers Never Road Vegetation Beyond Fresh Led Huge End Wall Just Bursting Pub Successful Should Across View Desk

Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it. Matthew McGrory

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