Fame Quotes - Page 16

• When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic glamour. It was all very naïve. Of course, the only part of the stereotype that has proven true is the suffering and the starving. Now, my fantasy of scribbling poems in a tower is gone, but an anxiety about reviews, book sales, and awards has taken its place.

  Robin Beth Schaer

  Book, Taken, Anxiety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.

  Andy Kindler

  Believe, Character, Careers

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• It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.

  Michael Buble

  Kids, People, Singing

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• I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.

  Paul Smoker

  New York, Who I Am, Race

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• A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.

  Dan Graham

  Art, Economic Value, Records

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• Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame. I don't need the admiration. I'd like all of those things, but I don't need them. Because what I get from photographing is learning. I have spent my life learning by looking through a lens.

  Rondal Partridge

  Photography, Lenses, Needs

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• I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

  William Blake

  Book, Heaven, Brain

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• What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true; yet it hardly harms Rossetti or touches his standing. On the contrary, it defines both very brilliantly. The small word 'failed' is a small word and little more to artists who are forever going on until they give up over a game that must be lost. Every artist, when confronted by the immensities of art, which is life, must confess to failure. A failure is a thing very relative.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Art, Giving Up, Games

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• The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

  Iggy Pop

  Thinking, Ideas, Rocks

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• Fame is a Bleet, man.

  Brad Pitt

  Men

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• Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.

  Albert Camus

  Girl, Beach, Morning

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• It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

  Cory Doctorow

  Obscurity, May, Impossible

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow”, p.112, PM Press

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• Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

  Matt Damon

  Next Day, Yesterday, One Day

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• People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.

  Kanye West

  People, Want, Persons

  "Thirty Seconds To Mars' 'City Of Angels' Vid: Kanye, Lindsay, More Show Love To L.A." by Brenna Ehrlich, www.mtv.com. October 29, 2013.

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• I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Caring, Special

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• Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, Honor, Virtue

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• WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.

  Mr. T

  Wrestling, Wwe, Rose

  "Mr. T exclusive: Why I rejected an invite from WWE to join their Hall of Fame". www.mirror.co.uk. March 3, 2009.

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• Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

  Albert Bandura

  Reality, People, Overcoming

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• Honor's thought
  Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Reign

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 1

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• By being seldom seen, I could not stir
  But like a comet I was wondered at.

  William Shakespeare

  Wonder, Comets

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.260, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe happiness comes from pleasure, or from getting things or power over people or money or fame or even health and survival. None of these sometimes very good things can bring ultimate meaning to our lives. We are born to be deeply conscious, inwardly free and deeply capable of love. The longing for these things is the definition of what it means to be human.

  Jacob Needleman

  Believe, Mean, People

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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• Success. Money. Fame. Whatever you're going after. You have one kick at the can, I always say. It's very rare that you have many kicks at the can. You're there at the right place at the right time, you have your shot, and it either works or it doesn't. And I've had many shots.

  Shane Smith

  Right Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Talent isn't really enough to make it in any world. If you're trying to be a superstar, or at the highest rate of fame, you have to have personality too. You have to be a well-rounded person. It takes way more than talent nowadays.

  D-Pryde

  Personality, Trying, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like to talk about myself to death, and I don't like to share too much, and I don't really have dreams of extreme fame or even extreme respect.

  Christopher Bollen

  Dream, Mean, Share

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I loved that people loved my dad. He never said no to an autograph but didn't make fame a "thing" or act any differently. And it was beautiful to have that support from his fan base when I started to study acting.

  Genesis Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Dad, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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