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  • Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.

    Moving   People   Trying  
  • Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

  • I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's good. I don't get bothered in restaurants and stuff like that. But when I'm at events that are really geared toward animation fans, they know who I am. And I'm so very pleased and so flattered by it. People are extremely complimentary to me, and that only encourages me to continue to do more really good work. I get paid by the studios, but I know I work for the fans.

    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • Anonymity is not necessarily something to shun; we don't have to achieve celebrity to make a mark on the world.

    World   Achieve   Mark  
  • The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.

    Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
  • MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just... Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is an important part of any public figure's day. We haven't seen it yet, but there's going to be a generation that comes up where the new trend will be complete anonymity. It'll be cool to have never posted anything online, commented, opened a webpage or a MySpace. I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You'll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you'll be shoved back onto your reality show.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

    Fear   Persistence   Evil  
    Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]
  • It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

    Hate   Odd   Notice Me  
    "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.
  • In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I think the beauty of chat rooms is that you can have your anonymity of course, and you can choose to be raunchy and sexy and bold. Or you can actually go into certain chat rooms and maybe have an incredibly soulful, meaningful conversation that will change your life or change the other person's life.

    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

  • As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's biggest third-class city I could pass unnoticed. I spoke the language. I was familiar with the currency. I could drink the water. I could almost breathe the air, late April air, compounded of interesting hydrocarbons.

    Angel   Air   Class  
  • Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

  • The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

    Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
  • Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.

    Want   Stills   I Can  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

    Father   Fame   Anonymity  
  • So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

  • Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

    Clothes   Wish   Battle  
    Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”
  • I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

    Hate   Thinking   Media  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

    Art   Men   Doe  
    Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”
  • I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

  • Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2645, Delphi Classics
  • For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

    Giving Up   Loss   Sides  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

    Media   Weakness   Social  
  • There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

  • I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

    Thinking   Doors   People  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

    Radio   Used   Figures  
    "Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 27, 2013.
  • Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

    Blessed   People   Trying  
    "Tyler Perry Holds on to His Past" by Scott Bowles and USA Today, abcnews.go.com. September 11, 2008.
  • Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

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