Famous Quotes
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Mongolia is a country of only three million souls. One million of them live in Ulaanbaatar, where, despite the skyscrapers, half the population sleep in tents. One of the few Mongolians to become famous outside his home country is Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, who won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World prize.
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I had to wait 110 years to become famous... I intend to enjoy it as long as possible.
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You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!
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But I don't feel the need to be famous.
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It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
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We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.
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I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
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I come across famous people all the time. It's the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I've achieved and the manner I've done it. It's street credibility. They know where I'm coming from, they know my reputation.
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When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.
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People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I'm really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' I wouldn't know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can't.
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Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesn't? But famous-famous? I just don't care about it. And if you genuinely don't give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.
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I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.
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You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.
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I don't need a lot of attention. I'd much rather have the work be famous than the face be famous.
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I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.
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In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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She Mary I married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.
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I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
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It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.
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I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
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It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.
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For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.
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I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time.
