I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

As a kid, I would always shop for my back-to-school clothes at department stores. I lived in a small town, and department stores were all we had access to.

We are not a little tiny town anymore.

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.