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Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it...

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Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to ...

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Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name

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Gregory BenfordFoundation's Fear

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associate...

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Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall...

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When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, ...

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And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitab...

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For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It ...

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He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition ...

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I’m not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it w...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame a...

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J. G. BallardThe Atrocity Exhibition

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be fam...

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Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students...

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But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Fr...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now found themselves the unwi...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glor...

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J. Michael StraczynskiBabylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame ...

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Jane AustenJane Austen's Letters

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unabl...

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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...

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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's al...

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Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone ...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

Being idolized and being torn down felt oddly similar. They both made me feel alone.Friendship and t...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see ...

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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, becaus...

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

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John GrishamThe Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

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America takes her writers too seriously.

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Kingsley AmisThe Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopp...

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I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit s...

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I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I ...

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I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Ffl...

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions...

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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when ...

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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is no...

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Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Som...

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If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

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Marilyn MansonThe Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

The bigger the star, the bigger the target.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, w...

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There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

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I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the w...

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I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead ...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...

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Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Fame is the worst pain known to man. It’s stronger than heroin.

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that ...

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I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

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Rabindranath TagoreChitra - A Play in One Act

I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the...

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Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Opennes...

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Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name…Wherever a h...

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Rainer Maria RilkeLetters on Life

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but a...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonJournals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they...

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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-litera...

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Ray BradburyZen in the Art of Writing

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up bec...

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

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It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a mu...

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Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fam...

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Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does wh...

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I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me be...

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True freedom comes from being unknown.

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small indivi...

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I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak...

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€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a priv...

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Stephen FryThe Fry Chronicles

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only tho...

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He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to prot...

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Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like bein...

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We're in Des Moines, Iowa today, were in Omaha, Nebraska yesterday and Boise, Idaho the day before. ...

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I’m famous. Ain’t that a bitch?

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.