In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.
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Related I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. WILLIE NELSON If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell. JEANNETTE WALLS Here in California, a lot of people are just kinda rude, and they're really impatient, especiall... CAYDEN BOYD In January 2006, it's at the highest record level [70] we have ever seen in the state of Texas. Ordi... JAMES HULL Right now, most of South Texas is in an exceptional drought, which is the most extreme category. JASON STRAUB I was raised in the West. The West of texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Wash... GEORGE BUSH The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. MALCOLM MCDOWELL It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it'... BETTY BUCKLEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES This could be almost worse than Katrina because there are 4 million barrels of refining in Texas are... TIM EVANS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the pla... TAYLOR KITSCH We are doing some work out in West Texas trying to establish elk back in the state. We have over a 1... WAYNE MCCANTS I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur peop... JANIS JOPLIN I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever. KELLY CLARKSON When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn... JENNY LAWSON The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica... GAIL COLLINS I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that... VANILLA ICE My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will ... NATALIE MAINES It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd se... JESSICA BIEL You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-... S. C. GWYNNE Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and inc... MICHAEL MCCAUL I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I hea... DUANE CHAPMAN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH They still consider me a Texas boy, ... So, that's kind of cool for them to see their Texas boy get ... ANDREW LEWIS The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' KINKY FRIEDMAN Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' GEORGE W. BUSH I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever. JACK ANTONOFF I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's. JOHN LEE HANCOCK While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few faci... WENDY DAVIS The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t... BEN SHAPIRO Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of th... JOHN STEINBECK Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the ... JOHN STEINBECK My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida. KATE UPTON I still think 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' was what they call one of those watershed movies. T... FRED WILLARD Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember th... GAIL COLLINS The whole state has migrated. I've heard that as far as west Texas on I-20, there were no hotel room... BILL WEBSTER I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with... AGYNESS DEYN President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and c... RANDY NEUGEBAUER The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not mu... E. LYNN BURKETT I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid. JACKSON RATHBONE The Tea Party definitely scored a significant victory with Senator Cruz's election in 2012 and s... JULIAN CASTRO Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood. CALEB LANDRY JONES In a year in which a major hurricane devastated parts of the Texas coast, the insurance industry was... ALEX WINSLOW Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had hi... JOHN CUSACK If you spread $10 million on the entire Texas border, it won't go very far, JOHN WOOD I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually d... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Tex... YOGI BERRA This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money c... DAVID DEWHURST If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center... WALTER O'BRIEN I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO We are doing an organ symphony, and we need that instrument. First Presbyterian Church has one of th... CEO M. WADE KELLEY I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo... WENDY DAVIS I've never been truly hammered... Never. Not even in college. I was too busy driving or flying a... JEFF DUNHAM I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refine... G. W. BAILEY With his Hollywood looks, he was typecast to play the governor of the great state of Texas, KATHY WALT In Texas, private landowners have invited the group onto a lot of areas. The last count I heard was ... CONNIE HAIR Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed d... WENDY DAVIS The concern we have today is for Texas. They're still in drought condition, and their weather foreca... E. LYNN BURKETT The concern we have today is for Texas. They're still in drought condition and their weather forecas... E. LYNN BURKETT I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever see... TAYLOR KITSCH We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years ... GEORGE ZIMMER I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma. ADAM MCKAY I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brot... CALEB LANDRY JONES Here in East Texas, if fires reach over 100 acres in size, they are considered large fires, because ... BILL ROSE I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's... ELLEN DEGENERES My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York... LYNN COLLINS I wasn't all that familiar with the 'Texas Chainsaw' franchise, and I knew who Leatherfa... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an aver... MAGGIE GALLAGHER I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I p... ROBERT WOODROW WILSON When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to ... SHELDON WHITEHOUSE Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. SAM DONALDSON Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, an... IAN FRAZIER People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likel... JERRY HALL She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her somethin... CHERIE PRIEST You're seeing this a little more in West Texas. A lot of communities are being forced to make tough ... CHARLES BREITHAUPT Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, an... GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew ... BILL PAXTON Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has... YOGI BERRA Texas Instruments reaffirmed that some of the fears in the marketplace were unfounded. ALBERT LIN You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out... JANINE TURNER I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 't... LOUIE GOHMERT I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in th... TRAVIS SCOTT One of my favorite books is 'Armadillo Rodeo', and I got the idea from traveling to Texas an... JAN BRETT When you go in facing Texas and Texas Tech, [which] are always up there in the baseball polls, they'... AARON LUNA We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. An... ALAN VEGA Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States. ADLAI STEVENSON I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epi... WENDY DAVIS Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageou... JANIS JOPLIN Making ribs in Texas isn't that unusual a choice for 'Top Chef'. We played the stereotyp... TOM COLICCHIO Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong. TEXAS GUINAN A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards. TEXAS GUINAN One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was... FRANKIE VALLI To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, C... MOLLY IVINS While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had... CHUCK NORRIS
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