I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John Le Carre

My private life has nothing to do with my films.
Fritz Lang

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
Shimon Peres

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
Amy Tan

The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

The post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison

I want to keep my private life private.
Cathy Freeman

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
Anita Desai

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
Catherine Deneuve

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.
Mortimer Zuckerman

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
Mortimer Zuckerman

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
Francesca Annis

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
Francesca Annis

It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.
Denise Richards

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.
Clara Zetkin

My life style in a sense is kind of private.
Marc Newson

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.
Melinda Gates

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.
Tom T. Hall

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
Liev Schreiber

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
Catherine Deneuve