Quotes About Private

The things I thought were real are shadows, and the real Are what I thought were private shadows.

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

the experience of motherhood loses nearly everything in its translation to the outside world. In motherhood a woman exchanges her public significance for a range of private meanings, and like sounds outside a certain range they can be very difficult for other people to identify.

todos tenemos tres vidas: la pública, la privada y la secreta.

Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.

First one and then another and then more and more, their frozen figures resolving out of the gloom. Most were seated around a series of tall tables, their postures grimly comical, as if they'd been overcome in the midst of some desperate, private act.

In their disfigured semibaldness, something private had been stolen, melding them into a indistinguishable collection, like animals in a herd.

I have come to believe that we steer our individual spheres of being through the spectra of possible worlds via the choices we make, the acts we perform. Most people stick to known routes, and therefore cannot travel far. They live too modestly, and perhaps too privately. Only by being strange can we move, for strange acts cause us to be rejected by whatever normality we have offended, and to be propelled towards a normality that can better accommodate us.

I tend to keep my thoughts to myself, which is why I scowl a lot,

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.

I'm not an intimate person, really.

I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.

People who know me personally know me as an introvert.

By nature I'm sort of an introvert.

I am an introvert.

I've always been an introvert.

I'm fairly introverted, but when I do stuff like a Maxim shoot, there's a side of me I call Gillian.

I have a very introverted real personality.

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well.

I myself am a private equity investor.

It was an important and daring decision to open Eletrobras capital to private investors.

We are going to combat corruption, and we are going to underscore the fact that we want the private investors to be a major part of our future economy.

In a case involving his private conduct, a President should be treated like any private citizen. The rule of law requires no more - and no less.