PERSONA in a Sentence

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For PERSONA, below is one of 5 sentences:
As Norman Mailer once said to me, "One of the hardest things to acquire is a persona, and you've got one."

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 Meanings and Examples of PERSONA
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persona
 n.  characters in play; one's public image or personality
Classic Sentence:
1  Quapropter si rex non in singulares tantum personas aliquot privatum odium exerceat, sed corpus etiam reipublicae, cujus ipse caput est, i.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  As Norman Mailer once said to me, "One of the hardest things to acquire is a persona, and you've got one."
2  I can manage that for another thing because my online persona is a pen-name.
3  But with all eyes on Clinton ahead of a possible 2016 presidential run, they add rare new bits of new detail to a public persona that is among the most defined in America.
4  He was declared persona non grata and forced to leave the country.