There’s only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do. – Kim Gordon
I think I’ve learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven’t shared their experience in some small way. – Mark Haddon
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. – Jesse Plemons
I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that’s how trust gets built. – Jeffrey Skoll
What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don’t have the resources necessary to fill that gap. – Julian Castro
I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat. – June Squibb
Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role. – Kyra Sedgwick
When you’re playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame. – Lorraine Toussaint
I saw Cate Blanchett in ‘Big and Small,’ and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie star is really exciting. – Lily James
The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day. – Kalpana Chawla
I’ve played in small markets; I’ve played in big markets. For me, basketball is inside the arena. It doesn’t recognize what market you’re in. It’s about wins and losses, and that’s the way I approach it. – Jason Kidd
While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs. – Louise Slaughter
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. – Martha Beck
I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: ‘Do you know who this is?’ And she said: ‘Mickey Mouse.’ – Matt Groening
If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative. – John Perez
With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact. – John Cho
Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself. – Joseph Nye
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. – John Dos Passos
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. – John Boyd Orr
I need to have small morsels of sweets. If I have a day with the fam with a big family dinner, then I’ll indulge… but then the next day or two I’ll really be strict. I learned that from Dolly Parton, by the way! – Kimberly Schlapman
I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children – very, very strict – a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human. – Lorraine Toussaint
Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources – a large group of people and we can now do even more. – Jan Egeland
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant. – Marilyn vos Savant
We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It’s hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing. – John Collison
When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash. – Lauren Greenfield
I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren’t part of the daily fabric. – Lynn Flewelling