"That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity."

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Ann Goldstein

#Writing Quotes #Publicity Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.”
“I was at a Golden Globes after party and Channing f**king Tatum came up to me, and his stunning missus, Jenna Dewan. And they said, 'We call each other moon of my life and my sun and starsâ€™ and all that. I was like, 'I cannot contain this. Please, can we all have something sexual together? You're both beautiful. Even just a hug'.”

Source : "Emilia Clarke Is BAZAAR's June/July Cover Girl" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 11, 2015.
“The reason I introduced sex - or erotic imagery - to Purple is not only because I don't want sex to be hidden but because also I consider it as an extension of fashion, the way the body expresses seduction and beauty. It's very artificial to put sex in a ghetto. Plus, sex sells.”
“I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.”
“There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.”
“The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.”

Source : William Barnes (1950). “Selected poems”
“Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.”

Source : "Larry Gelbart's `M*A*S*H' Memories and Comic Asides" by Larry Gelbart, www.sfgate.com. May 17, 1998.
“Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.”

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