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• I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.

  Jerry Stahl

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jessica Jardine, Travis Hunter, www.avclub.com. March 5, 2009.

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• There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.

  Marie Dressler

  Thinking, Doctors, Actors

  Marie Dressler (1924). “The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts”, New York : R.M. McBride

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• Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

  Simone Weil

  Modern Life, Action, Life Is

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.153, Psychology Press

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• Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Imagination, World

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.114, Canongate Books

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• Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the state, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Lying, Philosophy, School

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• In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.

  James Hollis

  Spiritual, Lying, Fall

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.101, Penguin

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• Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, Responsibility, Childhood

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• The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.

  Peter Drucker

  Home, Fate, Employment

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.336, Routledge

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• Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

  Jason Statham

  Giving, Littles, Range

  "Jason Statham: 'Me in a cape? Tight tights? Nah!'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2011.

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• If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Philosophical, People, Liberty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.267, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

  David Gerrold

  Imagination, Important, Want

  David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.114, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

  Samuel Smiles

  Children, Issues, Mind

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

  Brittany Murphy

  Past, Lessons, Print

  "Brittany Murphy: 'Don't listen to' gossip" by Meriah Doty, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2003.

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• It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Imagination, Mind

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• I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

  Danny Kaye

  I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.

  William Cobbett

  Writing, Views, Tyrants

  Political Register, August 14, 1819.

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• I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Children, Thinking, Wife

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• There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

  Damian Lewis

  People, Giving, Acting

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

  Steve Aoki

  Percentages, Swear

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• No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Fire, Idols

  Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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• I want to say to you is that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did not intend to drive a stake in the heart of religion and to drive it out of our public life. What they intended to do was to set up a system so that we could bring religion into our public life and into our private life without any of us telling the other what to do.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1082, Best Books on

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• A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.

  Margaret Walker

  Art, Mind, Needs

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• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

  Jill Tweedie

  Hate, Reading, Avid

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.

  Marian Seldes

  Book, Perfect, Shining

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• I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, People, Singing

  "Joan Jett and Cherie Currie: The real 'Runaways'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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