Dasha Zhukova Quotes

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

Talking to the press is not always good.

You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself; you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation in some way. It's very difficult when you see the PR campaign that Anglo have built up against us. A lot of the media would be very anti-Quinn and have fallen hook, line and sinker for the Anglo story where they are the good guys.

The media can make or break an administration.

It was my job to get the skeletons out of the closet and into the press—which I did.

I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

Negative press is always going to come out.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.