#public figure

If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

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#fly #i #public #public figure #thai

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility. ↗

— Patti Smith

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#artist #aspect #being #figure #good

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. ↗

— David Guterson

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