I'm from the Midwest.

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York,…

— Gillian Flynn

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way…

— Haylie Duff

The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and there’s a certain attitude that comes across…

— Pokey LaFarge

“The Midwest is full of these types of people: the nice-enoughs. Nice enough but with a soul made of plastic—easy to mold, easy to…

— Gillian Flynn

I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

There are good people here in the Midwest. That's for sure.

— Martin Brodeur

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

— Jeremy Piven

I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out…

— Gavin Creel

Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing…

— Leigh Michaels

When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources.…

— Bob Latta

I'm from the Midwest, so I know what Indiana basketball is all about and I'm very blessed to be a part of it.

— Caris LeVert

I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me…

— Daniel Sunjata

“They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at…

— Susan Magsamen

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

— Harmon Killebrew