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" I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. "
Rufus Wainwright
Famous
Friends
Go
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" I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can. "
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" I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. "
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" I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not. "
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" I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.' "
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