Richard O'Brien Quotes
I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.Richard O'Brien
Quotes to Explore
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
Sammy Sosa -
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
T. J. Miller -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
Hal Newhouser
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz -
I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
Samantha Fox -
Fame creeps up on you.
Ian Mckellen -
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey -
I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
Hans Rosling
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I'm not driven by being understood.
Kary Mullis -
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.
Dan Colen -
I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
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?
Bryan Adams -
What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
Bette Midler -
I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing – zero – to do with anything resembling fame.
Lauren Graham
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Fame puts you there where things are hollow.
David Bowie -
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling -
Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.
Kathy Mattea -
I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
Patrick Ness -
I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
Richard O'Brien