The Midwest Quotes
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The Midwest Quotes & Sayings
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I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.
— Jim Gaffigan
I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.
— Roger Andrew Taylor
I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.
— Diablo Cody
There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.
— Jane Kaczmarek
I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.
— Robin Zander
'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.
— Nancy Travis
I love the Midwest accent.
— Lucy Punch
Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.
— Angie Everhart
The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.
— Jeremy Piven
The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.
— Chuck Inglish
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
— Stewart O'Nan
I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.
— Scott Walker
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
— Natasha Leggero
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
— Jami Attenberg
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.
— Shelley Fabares
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
— Robert Gottlieb
I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.
— Edward Hirsch
WINTERS WERE TOUGH in the Midwest, then and now. I never liked winter. And I hate snow. It's white, but it darkens your heart.
— Clara Cannucciari
I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.
— Len Cariou
Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.
— Paul Rust
Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with.
— Angela Johnson
Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
— Joseph Kosinski
There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.
— Ajay Naidu
Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.
— Charley Pride
We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.
— Jonathan Groff
I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.
— Mona Simpson
I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.
— Jim Gaffigan
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
— Dean Norris
Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.
— Kent Haruf
She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.
— John Irving
I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.
— Jami Attenberg
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
— Richard Powers
I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.
— Alan Arkin
There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
— Lee Iacocca
Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.
— Charles Baxter
Midwest Radio would like to extend their sympathies to the families and loved ones of the dead
— Mike McCormack
In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game.
— Jim Butcher
I'm from the Midwest.
— Craig Kilborn
This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.
— Jim McKelvey
Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects.
— Jennifer Niven
I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
— Candy Crowley
No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities.
— Stella Atrium
After decades away from the Midwest, she'd forgotten that bewildering generosity was a common regional tic.
— J. Ryan Stradal
Welcome to the Midwest, Mom used to say. Where the weather keeps you guessing and you're almost always sure to hate it.
— Jennifer Brown
White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following.
— Ron Paul
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
— Dave Eggers
I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.
— Tom Brokaw
Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.
— Judy Woodruff
The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
— Harmon Killebrew
That, and the untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. Fuck Ohio.
— Tim Dorsey
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
— Douglas Wilson
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
— Andrew Rannells
I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.
— Jim Gaffigan
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.
— Chris Van Allsburg
any city or town in the Upper Midwest that's known more for what it used to make than what it makes now.
— Anne Trubek
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.
— Tommy Bolin
I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
— Michael Moore