Quotes About Exposure

The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

We live in an age when private life is being destroyed. The police destroy it in Communist countries, journalists threaten it in democratic countries, and little by little the people themselves lose their taste for private life and their sense of it. Life when one can't hide from the eyes of others — that is hell.

El amor cuando se hace público, aumenta de peso, se convierte en una carga.

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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

I would love to do films - ones that get seen.

It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more.

That was the trouble of telling someone all your truths. They could use them to tear you apart.

point is that we have some ugly skeletons in our closet that we don't acknowledge

By the time they're out of preschool, most children have already seen thousands of acts of violence.

Radiance unrelenting— no peace, no shadow, no shelter now—

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.

Because feeling uncomfortable is what a college education is all about—being exposed to disturbing aspects of human experience. We're talking about twentysomething adults who are exposed to a lot worse in the daily news. I'm not going to infantilize them.

In fact, what obscures vision and exposes people to more risk is not an outward mindset, which stays fully alive to and aware of others, but an inward one, which turns its attention away from others while simultaneously provoking resistance.

for he could feel their eager eyes and their eager words as clearly as he could hear their scratching pens. And all for the papers—his blanching face and trembling hands—they would have that down—and his mother in Denver and everybody else there in Lycurgus would see and read—how he had looked at the Aldens and they had looked at him and then he had looked away again.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

People get to know you better on the small screen, be it while judging or hosting a show.

When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.

The Internet is so crazy, and you're exposed to so many things. In an hour, you can really jump around.