In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.
Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.
In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In 'The Travelers,' that's not what's going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters' personal dramas.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.
Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and - my personal favorite - that I deny the Trinity.
I ask for personal appearance fees because I've earned them. I deserve them. My presence at events is what they need, so they ought to pay for it.
My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.
