Quotes About Local

When I was a teenager, a friend of mine got a job on a wrestling radio show in Montreal, and he found a local professional wrestler who was able to train us.

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse Stewart. They became an inspiration for how I wanted my writing voice to be.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

How about first ensuring that people within a twenty-mile radius like the food before worrying about scaling the restaurant?

Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.

I had a record called 'Touchdown.' It was really bubbling in my city, and I used to go to different clubs and perform.

I played with local bands and ended up touring with Scissor Sisters, Mylo, Alphabeat, and Calvin Harris. That somehow changed into DJ'ing.

I got my group together when I was about thirteen. We had a local radio show, and then we started touring for the principal of the high school - he was in the Lions Club, and so we were the entertainment.

We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.

I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

To have a tournament right where you live is very cool.

I like the tournaments at home. The crowd is always behind you.

What tournaments want to do, typically, is support charities in their community that need the money and charities that are impactful to their community. The better the job the tournament does for the charities, the better they are able to sell the tournament and raise money for the charity.

We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

Portland has all the accoutrements of a big city, but the heart and soul of it is a small town, so that creates an intimacy in a large environment.

Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.