Adam Peaty Quotes

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.

I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall - something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.

There ain't no secrets in this town.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get our news, and how we get our gossip.

Truth be told, that's really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.

I think it is always good to know what is happening around the club.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.