A Quote by John Berger

All publicity works upon anxiety.

John Berger

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Anxiety Publicity Works

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John Berger
English - Novelist
November 5, 1926 - January 2, 2017

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

Zach Galifianakis

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

John Berger

I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

Muhammad Ali

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Joseph Pulitzer

I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.

Kevin Whately

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

Chris Lowe

The emerging notion of the Eighties was that publicity was a currency. The old view was that if you had a currency - your talent or your product - publicity might draw attention to it. The new view was that publicity in itself, highlighting you, bestowed value.

Michael Wolff

Surveillant anxiety is always a conjoined twin: The anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers. But the anxiety of the surveillers is generally hard to see; it's hidden in classified documents and delivered in highly coded languages in front of Senate committees.

Kate Crawford

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

Ann Goldstein

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Jeremy Bentham

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Brigitte Bardot

????Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

Michael O'Leary

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.