Many of the novelists I admire never left their hometown. Look at Flannery O’Connor. So many of the great Russians never left Russia. Shakespeare never left England. The list goes on. – Jhumpa Lahiri
In my hometown there is a pub named after me – The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?! – Jenson Button
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
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
The first thing I do when I get back to my hometown, San Antonio, is eat Whataburger. – Austin Mahone
It’s not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown. – Daryl Hannah
For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast. – George Vecsey
We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It’s an ’07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that’s just exploding on the scene right now. – Drew Bledsoe
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
I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It’s a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It’s a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing. – Kevin A. Ford
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 more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. – Katharine Graham
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 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
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
