Private Things Quotes

• Love says, mine. Love says, I could eat you up. Love says, stay as you are, be my own private thing, don't you dare have ideas I don't share. Love has just got to gobble the other, bones and all, crunch. I don't want to do that. I sure don't want it done to me!

  Marge Piercy

  Ideas, Done, Want

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.85, PM Press

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• How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.

  Christopher Plummer

  Thinking, Views, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

  Agnes Obel

  Escapism, Music Is

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

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• I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Sex, Crazy, Kissing

  "Carrie-Anne Moss Is the One" by David Hochman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Sexuality is a very private thing, 'Provocateur' will make it public

  Tyler Shields

  Sexuality

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• Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Artist, Art Is

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• I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

  Nicole Kidman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Strong, Forever

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• I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

  Alice Eve

  Intelligent, Thinking, People

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

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Thinking, Done, Eating

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Character, Process, Therapy

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• It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.

  Carrie Fisher

  People, Community

  "Carrie Fisher Opens Up About 'Star Wars,' The Gold Bikini And Her On-Set Affair". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, news.wbfo.org. November 28, 2016.

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• I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

  Catherine Hicks

  Believe, Way, Quiet

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• It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.

  Carrie Fisher

  Lonely, Issues, People

  "Remembering 'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, December 28, 2016.

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• We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

  Dave Eggers

  Loss, Past, Soul

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• A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Blood, Color, Law

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• Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Broken Heart, Food, Eggs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

  Rikki Ducornet

  Book, Writing, Space

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• Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.

  Philip Larkin

  Art, Suicidal, Thinking

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

  Italo Calvino

  Data, Autobiography, Register

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.345, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

  Ethel Wilson

  Writing, World, Four

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• and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sense Of Humor, Sanity, Conviction

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the [Centre] Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."

  Erro

  Venice, Directors, Exhibitions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!

  Brooke Fraser

  School, Thinking, Singing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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