I grew up in this tiny town in Rhode Island, and we didn't have cable. We had three TV stations, and one of them would play old movies. That's what I would watch, and I always wanted to be, like, Myrna Loy in 'The Thin Man.'
Arden Myrin
ManPlayThreeMoviesIslandOld
Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.
Hailemariam Desalegn
IslandAfricaWithinStabilityHorn
I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.
Alice McDermott
MeLongPlacePersonIslandLived
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
Fanny Kemble
DailyWalkSugarIslandBeenAgain
It's a very defined area, Newfoundland. It's an island - Labrador is a huge empty space. It's a very defined area with a very few number of people.
Princess Anne
SpacePeopleIslandEmptyNumber
I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.
Candace Owens
SchoolJournalismIslandUniversity
Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it.
Susan Isaacs
TeaLongYouIslandWhyAccept
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.
Sheldon Whitehouse
TruckYearFairnessTaxIslandNeed
'Once on This Island' is one of my favorite musicals, so to have the lead in that would be great.
Shanice Williams
GreatIslandLeadFavoriteWould
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
Thomas More
SunMoonIslandOthersReligions
I live on an island, and it's difficult to find.
Rick Ross
LiveFindIslandDifficult
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
Richard Flanagan
WorldEndIslandGrandparentsMining
Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.
Martin McGuinness
PartyGrowingIslandIrelandFastest
I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.
Leos Carax
TravelCameraCountryKnowIsland
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
Kenneth Grahame
WaterBrokenBoatDoubtIslandTwo
To help advance democracy, we need to allow for the reunification of Cuban families and the direct sending of remittances to the island's brave dissidents.
Joe Garcia
BraveDemocracyHelpIslandNeed
I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.
James Spithill
LifeSchoolBoatGoIslandWay
People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.
Jerry Della Femina
BeautifulPeopleLongFindIsland
We were married in Capri almost two years ago and we have made a pact with each other to visit the beautiful island and the church where we were married every year for the rest of our lives.
Giuliana Rancic
BeautifulRestChurchYearIsland
I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.
Andrea Hirata
BeautyBeautifulMeSceneryIsland
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.
Gerry Adams
MeTreesTalkingIslandWillDead
After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
GirlDecisionBestBabyIslandOff
I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.
Fred Melamed
LifeTimeActingDoneKindIsland
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.
Jeff Foxworthy
WordsBrainSongKnowIslandWhy
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