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My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Business Cattle Countryside Fact Father Grew He His In Fact Man Rearing Selling Trained Up Worked Young Young Man

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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

~Abbas Kiarostami

Topics: Also Cities Countryside Films Made More Prefer Rural Societies Than Towns True Villages

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I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Car Countryside Did Grew Lived Many Near Small Small Town Sudan Things Town Up Were Where

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I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.

~Alexa Chung

Topics: Always Countryside Enamored England Fashion Fashion Industry Grew Industry Middle Miniature Outside Outside World Quite Up Village World

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I love long power walks in the countryside.

~Alice Temperley

Topics: Countryside Long Love Power Walks I Love

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I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.

~Alice Temperley

Topics: Always Brand British Countryside Fantastic Grew Heritage Jackets Parents Up Used Wear

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I love my pets, and I'm a big animal lover. I also enjoy the nature and countryside.

~Amy Jackson

Topics: Also Animal Animal Lover Big Countryside Enjoy Love Lover Nature Pets I Love

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Some people will talk about how Afghanistan has improved, but they're really just talking about the cities. In the countryside where the war has been fought, it's really not that much better than it was in 2001.

~Anand Gopal

Topics: About Afghanistan Been Better Cities Countryside Fought How Improved Just Much People Really Some Some People Talk Talking Than War Where Will

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I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids.

~Anjelica Huston

Topics: Adult Alone Because Bound Brother Child Children Close Countryside County Forced Him Ireland Irish Kids Lonely Many Middle Neither Never Nor Other Other Kids Quite Really See Tightly Together Tony Very Were West

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On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Air Armed Between Bomb Bomber Bombs Command Countryside Crisis Dirty Flying Four Hydrogen January Morning Occurred Over Real-Life Spain Spanish Strategic Yields

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