Ron Carlson Quotes

I'm from the Midwest.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

I come from the heart of America.

The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here.

I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.

I am a South Tyrolean. I identify with this land.

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's how I've always sung, and it's what I grew up on.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.