When I shot 'Private Practice,' Amy Brenneman made a point of really befriending me before we started shooting.
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!
You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn't mind if you block it for them. Just tell me the truth and I'll adapt to it.
There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.
I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.
It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
