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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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, "I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there!" Then you get across the street and you're like, "Yeah I'm here!" And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
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I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
