A Quote by Tama Janowitz

With publicity comes humiliation.

Tama Janowitz

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Humiliation Publicity

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Tama Janowitz
American - Novelist
Born: April 12, 1957

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

Orson Scott Card

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

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

P. J. O'Rourke

I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .

John Lennon

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

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

Jeremy Bentham

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

Ann Goldstein

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

Michael O'Leary

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

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Milan Kundera

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.