Quotes About Publicity

When he was still in here with me, my pigeon buddy President Wilson would rag me, joking but jealous, about all the ink committed to Whit and me in newsprint, magazines, the pages of books. But so much of it was wrong, and so much of it was terrible.

I continue to have concerns about my decision to be public about my illness, but one of the advantages of having had manic-depressive illness for more than thirty years is that very little seems insurmountably difficult. Much like crossing the Bay Bridge when there is a storm over the Chesapeake, one may be terrified to go forward, but there is no question of going back.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.

I want to have a great open relationship with our press.

What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.

Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.

I cried all the way to the bank.

He invaded the Women's Room with a Channel Ten news crew and cub reporter Mike Munro. The issue was voluntary fees. The point was ridicule. When asked to leave the room, Abbott declared for the cameras: "This is a man's room for the moment.

He had demonstrated decisively, over the course of a halfcentury, that "by using money like a heavy club," an individual could, with the mass media as a loudspeaker, make his voice heard in every corner of the nation.

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

G. K. Chesterton claimed that joy, "which is the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian . . . and the dominant theme of Christian faith. By its creed (i.e., what we believe) joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special (occasional) and small.

The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion

I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

The problem with becoming a public intellectual is that over time you grow more and more public but less and less intellectual.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

From what I hear of what has been appearing in the newspapers," Ike wrote his son John, "you are learning that it is easy enough for a man to be a newspaper hero one day and a bum the next.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.