The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.
Any publicity is good publicity.
Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.
Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, tha...
The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
The art of reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a gr...
In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life...
Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.
When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more wi...
I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.
I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.
