Publicity Quotes - Page 14

• Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Integrity, Fancy, Moments

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• Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Political, Politics, Temper

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• Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

  Ava Gardner

  Love Is, Hollywood, Divorced

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• Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

  Hedda Hopper

  Stars, Men, Agents

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• Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

  Bette Midler

  Block, Here I Am, Sound

  Bette Midler (2014). “A View from A Broad”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mean, Divorce, Hollywood

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• Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Said, Cases, Untrue

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• Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Book, Sleep, Boots

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• Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

  Enid Bagnold

  Phoenix, Ashes, News

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.301, Courier Corporation

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• What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

  May Sarton

  Men, America, Giving

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• Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

  Kate Greenaway

  Writing, Long, Desire

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• it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Struggle, Book, Fall

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• International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Views, Goal, Fearless

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.

  Jack LaLanne

  Beach, Hands, Years

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Anxiety

  "Campaign stars Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell talk politics and pee". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2012.

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• Some people call me a publicity hound.

  Joe Arpaio

  People, Hounds, Call Me

  "To-Do List: Curiosity Lands on Mars; Bolt Wins" by Nadine Zylberberg, www.newyorker.com. August 6, 2012.

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• It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.

  Jeff Abbott

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

  Russell Brand

  Writing, Thinking, Meaningless Things

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• I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

  Joshua Bell

  Real, Expectations

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• By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

  Octavio Paz

  Two, Knowing, Silence

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.96, Arcade Publishing

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• Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.

  Sean O'Casey

  Stars, Ignorance, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1956). “Inishfallen, fare thee well. Rose and crown. Sunset and evening star”, MacMillan

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• The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Rights, Government, Views

  William Jennings Bryan (1914). “The Royal Art”

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• Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  People, Effort, Needs

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Reprints of Addresses”

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• I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

  Jean Cocteau

  Exhibitions, Exhibits

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• The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

  John Updike

  Passion, Government, Essence

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