Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
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Fame gives you a high.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
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Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live? Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?
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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
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One mistake does not define you.
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I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multiple personalities. But I don't write to make an argument on behalf of any of the characters, or to prove anything about a character. I think that's important that I be serving the story first and not my own point of view.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.
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Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.
