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I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.
Tom Drury
Best
Character
You
Remember
Building
Characters
Insert
About
Restraint
Small
Tend
Write
Small Town
Put
Boundary
Town
Towns
Sort
Because
Lot
Create
Novel
Number
Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
Victor LaValle
Black
Lonely
Kid
Haunting
More
Had
New
Towns
Hill
House
Looming
Felt
Queens
Shirley
York
Jackson
New York
Doomed
Whether
Fun
I've gotten to really, really like being back in the States. It's so easy being in your own country, and I really like Americans - typical American towns and provincial college towns are my ideal place to be.
Whit Stillman
College
Country
Own
Back
Typical
States
Easy
Ideal
Like
Towns
Gotten
Provincial
American
Being
Place
Really
Your
Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Laugh
Netherlands
Take
Throwing
Part
Towns
Bowls
Toilet
Here
When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we'd never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that's sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns.
Winston Marshall
First
Band
Otherwise
See
Seeing
Never
Touring
Like
Towns
Sort
Go
Were
Going
Being
Bigger
Rooms
Even
Why
Started
Playing
Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?
Martin O'Malley
Sit
Back
Our
Cities
Torn
Status
Status Quo
Towns
Content
Quo
Apart
Who
Violence
L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.
Chris O'Dowd
Work
You
Everyone
Those
Feels
Like
Towns
Off
Scotland
North
Just
Oil
Where
Whether
Coast
Connected
Fun
Rig
One key question for the United States in the 21st century is whether noncoastal towns and rural communities, including many communities of color, will be able to participate in the digital revolution.
Ro Khanna
Key
Digital
Will
Revolution
States
21st Century
Rural
Able
Color
Participate
Towns
Question
Whether
Century
Communities
Many
Including
United
United States
Now in a lot of rural towns in Kentucky, the school system is the heartbeat of the community, not to mention one of the major employers.
Krystal Ball
School
Community
System
Rural
Mention
School System
Major
Towns
Employers
Lot
Heartbeat
Now
Kentucky
Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
Rand Paul
Worse
Run
Towns
Democrat
Inequality
Than
Mayors
Republican
Income
Income Inequality
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