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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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
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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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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.
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I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
