Geographical Mobility Quotes

Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but grew up in Eastern Europe, and became a woman in London.

My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

I was in Berkeley when the food energy in America was in Berkeley. Then it moved to Los Angeles, and I went to Los Angeles. It moved to New York, and I went there.

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

I was born in St. Augustine, Florida. I lived there till I was about 13, and then my family moved to Connecticut. I finished school there, and then I went to college in Philadelphia and came to New York in '87. I wasn't finished with school - I left school to go on the road.

I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.

I grew up in the suburbs, sometimes country-like suburbs because we moved around, but mostly suburbs.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

Sometimes I'd have breakfast in Guatemala and go to sleep in Mexico.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

I don't live in Ireland, I live in London with my girlfriend; and it's because of the globalization of our planet, it's not necessary to live in Los Angeles to be a successful and any country is just an airplane ride away. If there's a director who wants to meet me or if there's something I have to do, I can just hop on an airplane - the world's small now.

Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.