I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.
I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.
Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.
We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.
