#known

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on. ↗

— Adele

#about #celebrity #constantly #covers #even

It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#basically #before #december #everybody #fired

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#known #listening #more #most #ones

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ↗

— Saint Basil

#deed #deeds #friendship #fruit #gathers

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#bad #basically #because #case #classic

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#artist #away #energies #feeling #follows

A man is known by the company he organizes. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#known #man #organizes

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#known #truly #you

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#hard #hard work #i #into #justified

The flesh is the surface of the unknown. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#surface #unknown