Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans.'
He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.
Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.
For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.
