Quotes About Secrecy

I was writing 'Outlander' for practise and didn't want anyone to know I was doing it. So I couldn't very well announce to my husband that I was quitting my job and abandoning him with three small children to visit Scotland to do research for a novel that I hadn't told him I was writing.

Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.

Secret Service agents wear suits to blend in with presidential visits, not stand out.

After more than two decades of traveling with American presidents and chief diplomats - on visits to places that have included some of the world's most repressive nations - I am used to watching leaders disappear behind closed doors.

You know, a balance-sheet is like a bikini, it shows more but it hides what is vital. I learnt to read a balance sheet and then I got fascinated by stocks.

The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia's hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves.

I vividly remember hearing the car pull into the driveway and looking into the mirror on my mom's vanity with a face full of makeup and the counter below me a mess; it sent me into complete panic mode. From there, I would steal bits of makeup where I could to start my own little collection and play in my bedroom with the door locked.

I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.

The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.

If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.

I'm not going to talk about who I voted for.

Imagine how many people would not vote if they knew they were being recorded while they voted.

I have always seen Rajesh Khanna coming on the sets with his secretary only and no one from his family.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

I like working in the shadows.

You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.

For years I've known at some point it's very likely the shoe would drop. Maybe someone would guess that I'm trans. Maybe they would know me from my life before I transitioned.

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about it in the abstract every day.

I went bankrupt and then I didn't tell anyone.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Usually if you're a woman in Trump's bedroom, the only document you need is a nondisclosure agreement.

I'm nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn't want my mom to see that I was still awake.