I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the… — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle. — Jane Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'. — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
People in the Midwest, there's a lot of regional pride and a lot more, like, fake positivity - 'That's great - you're… — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
A lot of characters that are from the Midwest are not bad people, but they just believe in really different things. And… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
“He missed the Midwest... Northern California was impractically beautiful. Everywhere you looked there were trees and streams, waterfalls, mountains, the ocean... There… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with… — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The wind comes across the plains not howling but singing. It's the difference between this wind and its big-city cousins: the full-throated… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“The midwest is full of these types of people. The nice enoughs but with a soul made of plastic. Easy to mold,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Today, Chicago, like London, sucks in the best talent from its interior in the Midwest, where the swing to Trump was strongest.… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
Yes, I direct commercials as well. I get these really weird offers and then I have to bid on them and win… — Andy Dick Copy Share Image
“All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
My mom ate every piece of butter in the Midwest, she lived till she was 90. And my dad, he smoked, he… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping… — Jami Gertz Copy Share Image
I havent been much in the Midwest, although we were on Mackinac Island last summer and really had a wonderful time. — Melissa Morgan Copy Share Image
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard. — Dean Norris Copy Share Image
Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what… — Angie Everhart Copy Share Image
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to… — Shelley Fabares Copy Share Image
For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
People in the Midwest move at a much slower pace and things are not as dire as they are in the city. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know,… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you believe that life should be full of adventure , then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.” — Kathleen Flinn Copy Share Image
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
