Ava Gardner Quotes
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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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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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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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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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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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 actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
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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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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.
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Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
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The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
