#anon

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#poetry #woman #woman

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#canon #literature #writing #art

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#integrity #morality #real

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#blending-in #lonely

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire. ↗

— Kim Basinger

#balloon #clever #desire #going #helium

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. ↗

— Michael Bay

#audience #critics #dark #done #four

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#because #editors #even #i #i think

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#anonymous #everyone #get #great #i

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#anonymity #because #fame #our #really

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#fame #father #his #i #me