#fame

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill. ↗

— Jessica Cutler

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The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fame #history #dating

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. ↗

— William Davenant

#bred #broadest #fame #like #narrowest

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bee gees #fame #family #fortune #gees

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk. ↗

— Lucas Grabeel

#anything #care #fame #i #like

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#art #called #claim #director #discover

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#am #ask #because #certain #certain extent

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

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I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#anywhere #awful #compromised #fame #go