Publicists Quotes - Page 2

• My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.

  Robert Pattinson

  Awkward, Actors, Interviews

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• People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

  Roger McNamee

  Music, Powerful, People

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• I turned to Annabeth and shook my head in exasperation. “Always Hercules. What is it with Hercules?” Annabeth shrugged. “He had a great publicist.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, Exasperation

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

  Francesca Annis

  Sharks, Agents, Starting Out

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• Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

  Douglas Adams

  Hippie, Self, Lunch

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Del Rey

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• The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!

  Taylor Swift

  Hate, Phones, Gossip

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• They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

  Amy Sedaris

  Mean, Way, Kind

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• If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?

  Debbie Harry

  Art, Successful, Long

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

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• We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Elements, Definitions

  Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.7, Aegitas

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• Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists.

  Susan Faludi

  Children, Home, Looks

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.2,'Man Shortages and Barren Wombs'.

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• I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

  Ben Kingsley

  Jobs, Reading, Interviews

  "Sir Ben Kingsley Talks the Boxtrolls, What Convinced Him to Voice an Animated Villain, His Opinion of the Shakespearean Snatcher, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. September 20, 2014.

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• I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Opportunity, Self, Missing

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• Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Actors, Diplomats, Lovers

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist and say, 'Can I wear that?' I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better. And once I was told it was time to get one, I thought: This is one of my favorite hobbies! And I'm going to pay someone to steal my hobby from me? That's a terrible idea!

  Blake Lively

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Ooh La La, Blake Lively Talks to Florence Welch About Clothes, Men and More!". Interview with Florence Welch, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

  Megan Fox

  Damage Control, Call Me, Bases

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• I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Ambition, Names

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• The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.

  Tony Danza

  Giving, Clients, Gatekeepers

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• Aren't rumors great. Anyone can start them. They're a wonderful way to put out feelers. It's like getting the benefits of a publicist without paying one.

  Michelle Beadle

  Rumor, Benefits, Way

  Source: uproxx.com

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• If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Uplifting, Destiny, Political

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Fall, College, Advice

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• My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

  Tina Yothers

  Names, Long, Said

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• Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

  Sela Ward

  Written, Presses

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• Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Competition, Opinion, Internet

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• My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Successful, Feet, Entrepreneur

  "The Visionary Thing". www.wired.com. November 01, 1999.

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• I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.

  Ava DuVernay

  Mean, Eight, Different

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

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