If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey. . . then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
Producers don't really publicize movies.
I quit because I'm so tired of hearing bad news about cigarettes. . . Even if they discover good news, they don't publicize it - like the fact that smoking seriously reduces the risk of jogging.
I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.
