What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
I love Natalie Portman. She worked when she was younger, and she's so talented and private. She doesn't do things that are too crazy, but she pushes the envelope enough.
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.
There's always a high school jerk, isn't there? But I didn't date much in high school, because I went to an all-girls' private school for ten years.
It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.
First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.
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.'
