#public figure

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support. ↗

— Ryan White

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#first #give #give me #mayor #me

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

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#american #archetypal #dean #dirty #every

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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#author #away #beyond #change #figure