Asheville Quotes

• People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

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  Jules Shear

  People   Enjoy   Knows  

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• I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.

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  Pete Seeger

  New York   Father   School  

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My mind was blown by how much I felt I was like Peeta. We shot in the forest near Asheville, North Carolina-a lot of fight scenes, very physically demanding. Jennifer and I totally hit it off. We're both crazy people-we don't hold anything back.

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  Josh Hutcherson

  Crazy   Fighting   People  

  "Let the Games Begin!". www.vanityfair.com. December 2011.

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• We shot in a place called Asheville, which is like beautiful, beautiful forests. … And then part of it we shot all the reaping stuff, which was just crazy - because the reaping in the book and in the script is such an emotional thing for everyone. It really did feel like that when we were shooting it.

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  Liam Hemsworth

  Beautiful   Crazy   Book  

  "Q&A: Liam Hemsworth on The Hunger Games and Losing Weight for His Role". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

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  Charles Frazier

  Two   People   North Carolina  

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