Fame Quotes
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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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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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
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Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
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All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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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.
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
