Community Scrutiny Quotes

What would you have me do? I have two masters who always have an eye fixed on me. They are my neighbors and France is far away.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

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

The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

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.

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

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.