Anonymity Quotes - Page 7

• Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.

  Michael Kosser

  Morning, Writing, People

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• He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

  William Faulkner

  Humility, Men, Animal

  Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1971). “Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”, Random House Inc

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• The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

  Eddie Marsan

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.

  Robert Ardrey

  Men, Boredom, Drug

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• Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.

  John Loengard

  Loneliness, Car, Working Alone

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Government, Law

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

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• Invisibility is the only thing that fame cost me. I used to be able to go places and blend in. Anonymity is something you lose on this side of things.

  Katt Williams

  Fame

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• I have great family and friends that do not treat me like Queen Latifah. We've all grown with this thing, they have sacrificed part of there anonymity; they've had to deal with rumors and things in the paper and they've had to take this ride along with me and they've taken it and we've had a good time.

  Queen Latifah

  Queens, Taken, Rumor

  "Queen Latifah Takes Her Last Holiday". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. January 11, 2006.

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• For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.

  Khaled Hosseini

  War, People, Peaceful

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

  Tim Wu

  Way, Cures, Manage

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One of the biggest sacrifices in running for President, if there is one, is the loss of anonymity.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Loss, Sacrifice

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• TV has a lot of problems, but I think the Internet and social media have a lot more. Under the cover of anonymity people say the most vicious things.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Media, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

  Karen Essex

  Sex, Respectable, Derogatory

  Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.146, Anchor

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• She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

  Alice Sebold

  Life, World, Imagine

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

  Jeff Bridges

  Actors, Way, Wonderful

  "Jeff Bridges Interview AMERICAN MASTERS – JEFF BRIDGES: THE DUDE ABIDES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

  Jordana Brewster

  New York, Journey, Missing

  Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I think anonymity on the internet has to go away.

  Randi Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Going Away, Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

  Kim Basinger

  Clever, Writing, People

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