James Wan

As a director you're always so busy - you're go, go, go, you're always moving, moving, moving - so I'm not actually privy to all the weird stuff that's happening around me, but for a lot of the cast and crew, that's what I hear stories from them about weird stuff happening.

Australian Producer

Gad Saad

There are many benefits to having interesting friends on Facebook. In my case, given that fellow academics constitute a sizable portion of my online friends, I am at times privy to shared studies that I might otherwise miss (or perhaps only identify at some future date).

Canadian Scientist

Shefali Shah

The thing with this industry is, it's in your face, it's there. You are privy to whatever goes on, and somehow people have this sense of entitlement towards actors and filmmakers' life. It's like you don't have any privacy, your life is out there for people to see.

Holly Hunter

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.

American Actress

Terence Trent D'Arby

I've been privy to certain experiences which have allowed me to realize how fleeting time is, in any case, and how ultimately not important this is. 'This' being the things perhaps we trip on in life.

American Musician

E. O. Wilson

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

American Scientist

Gabrielle Zevin

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

American Author

Paul Theroux

My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life.

American Novelist

Betty Gabriel

Westworld' was its own treat and its own enigma. It was a great experience, but I definitely was not privy to a lot of things on that show.

Diogenes

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Greek Philosopher

Used when one has access to information not widely available or shared with a few.

Exclusivity Matters

Implies a level of trust given by those who shared the confidential information.

Trust and Discretion

Refer to a privy in historical or rural settings where modern plumbing isn't present.

Historical Context

Often seen in historical or period dramas to depict old-fashioned lifestyles.

Cultural Depictions

Highlights involvement or inclusion in secretive or confidential matters.

Shared Secrets

Being privy to something implies a trusted status, chosen to be in the know.

Implicit Trust

Refers to things closely held by an individual, not meant for others.

Personal Aspect

Not related to one's public or professional life but to their personal life.

Non-Professional Realm

 complexity and visual language that happens in a predictable order and I think that is incredible I think that means doodling is native to us and we simply are denying ourselves that instinct and finally a lot of people aren't privy to this but the doodle is a precursor to some of our greatest cultural assets this is but one this is

Doodlers, unite! - Sunni...

 I've photographed everything from really, really big sharks to dainty ones that fit in the palm of your hand. I've smelled the fishy, fishy breath of humpback whales feeding just feet away from me in the cold seas off Canada's Great Bear Rainforest. And I've been privy to the mating rituals of green sea turtles

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 In other words, they have a shared and growing complexity in visual language that happens in a predictable order. And I think that is incredible. I think that means doodling is native to us and we simply are denying ourselves that instinct. And finally, a lot a people aren't privy to this,

Sunni Brown: Doodlers,...

 of that wilderness in real time for the world to see. The whole world will be privy to the impacts when they come. And we'll explain that to people as it... as it arrives. Gregg. Gregg is trying to figure out how to bring life to this network. We need people to connect the dots.

Adventure on the...

 so you're like, oh, I hope the tag is okay. And so the waiting is really the hardest part. I'm going to show you our latest dataset. And it hasn't been published, so it's totally privy information just for TED. And in showing you this, you know, when we're looking at this data,

Tierney Thys: Swim with...

 worldwide all united in their love of and need to possess balls have done one question about dung beetles for a further study are they capable of having fun you know being frivolous we're not privy to the

African Dung Beetle PIPE...

 worldwide all united in their love of and need to possess balls have done one question about dung beetles for further study are they capable of having fun you know being frivolous we're not privy to

Dung Beetles PIPE National...

 actually a trap emitting a scent that the laws are powerless to resist we're not privy to the moth mental process but well here's the moss staring at the trap it's got to be the strangest looking

Deadly Mating PIPE National...

 actually a trap emitting a scent that the laws are powerless to resist we're not privy to the moths mental process but well here's the moss staring at the trap it's got to be the strangest

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Privy

Having exclusive or private knowledge of something.

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A toilet located in a small building outside a house or other building.

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Participating in the knowledge of something private or secret.

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Belonging or relating to a person in one's individual rather than official capacity.

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