Paulo Coelho Quotes

There is something about being in a remote town where anything other than green fields, trees and Saturday football club is very exciting and thrilling.

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

The beauty of where I'm from - this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina - I didn't have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons.

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

Every week in a small town is very different. Something is going on.

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.

I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very casual.

I'm an upstate New York lifer.

Small towns are so rich.

I'm just a simple country girl.

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

I'm from a small town - Niagara, outside of Toronto. When I was a kid, I thought it was really boring, but it ended up being a big blessing because I got to know myself at a young age.

My grandfather lived in New England all his life and was a Vermonter.

Where I'm from, in the middle of the country, there were no clubs or parties. You had to make your own fun.

I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.

I grew up in a small town.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.