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Quotes about town and country
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. (Batali Mario)
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels. (Batali Mario)
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness. (Batali Mario)
Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country. (Batali Mario)
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This town was built on nepotism. (Batali Mario)
I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town. (Batali Mario)
I chose to live in London, and I love it there. But I'm Scottish through and through. It's a great place, a beautiful land and a beautiful people. (Batali Mario)
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. (Batali Mario)
The things that are going on that really matter to us, and I identify myself as a New Yorker because I lived here ten years. (Batali Mario)
I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years. (Batali Mario)
“I live in a small town now, so beauty salons are sort of like where all the gossip ruminates where I live.” (Batali Mario)
Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience. (Batali Mario)
I yearned for the privacy and shadowy dark corridors of shrouded London streets, smelling of wet hawthorne, containing their secret nocturnal pleasures, and the intimacy of Europe. (Batali Mario)
I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage. (Batali Mario)
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts. (Batali Mario)
“I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.” (Batali Mario)
“It's great to come home. I am so glad we're having the All-Star Game in Houston. It's such a great city.” (Batali Mario)
“I feel immediately at home in New York or Washington. That's fantastic. But, it takes a lot of getting used to being a Londoner, coming to L.A. So, it was strange. It took me about a month to sort of settle down. Then, I really liked it.” (Batali Mario)
“But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for television and movies.” (Batali Mario)
It was in London that I met Noel Coward, whose plays I had read. (Batali Mario)
I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York. (Batali Mario)
“Jersey is my hometown, and I love it. I'll probably have houses in other places, but that's my home, and nobody's kicking me out of there.” (Batali Mario)
For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people. (Batali Mario)
“Timing can be everything in this town,” (Batali Mario)
I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense. (Batali Mario)
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