There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

‘Entourage’ was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was...

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we’re shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

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.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

I don’t have any stigma attached to my body. When I’m in my own private space, I have very little on.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Actually, I was the seventh private explorer but the first Canadian ‘space clown.’ I never dreamed of going into space; I just dreamed of traveling. But I admit that space is an incredible destination and...

I’ve built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

I don’t want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than...

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you’ll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

The big companies are the private industry. But they’re faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

I’m a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

I’m a very private person that prefers a low profile.

I’m really private, and also, when I’m home, I’m home. I don’t like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

I’m a pretty private person, so I’d like to say I’m a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

The post of honour is a private station.

Any society’s upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d’you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they’d tell me that they’re still going to have to write it up negatively.

I’m a private person.

I dread the promotion part of my job. It’s agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.

I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.

When the private does well, there’s revenue for the public sector.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any...

I’ve really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn’t want to divulge things that were too private.

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

It’s a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you’re being autobiographical.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I’ve experienced a private doubt, something that I’ve kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that’s how they’re doing it.

I’m a private intellectual, not a public one.

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

Spiritual matters should be private.

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

I’m a private person. I’m shy about people knowing things.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It’s a prurience that I’ve never understood.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

But surveying those words I realized they are mine. He is mine to protect. There is so much I’ve shared, and so much that’s been crushed by the sharing. I never mourned it, because it...

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