I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man meant I was involved in his public life as well as my own.
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.
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.
When I went to India, I became absolutely obsessed with the idea of building a hotel in India. I've never done a hotel, and I'd love to do public spaces in that culture.
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these sligh...
An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation
When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
