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" I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes. "
Leon Russell
Famous
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Thought
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" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "
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" I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room. "
Sharon Stone
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" Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person. "
Larry Hagman
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" I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. "
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Just
Add
" I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my right hand. And some of it effectively mimics classical stuff. "
Leon Russell
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Play
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" There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. "
Matt Damon
Think
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" I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage. "
Beyonce Knowles
Music
Stage
Talent
" And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California. "
Meg Whitman
California
Know
Want
" No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you. "
Sushant Singh Rajput
Life
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" I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.' "
Fred Armisen
Life
Famous
Blue
" It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot. "
Rob Lowe
Never
Way
Being
" Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. "
Richard Ernst
High School
Famous
Technology
" I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! "
Lyle Lovett
Danger
Being
Movie
" Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously. "
Nick Cannon
People
I Am
Money
" A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution. "
Jairam Ramesh
India
Power
Revolution
" What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property. "
Winona Ryder
People
Scary
Famous
" I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George, do you want me to play the same thing or 160 different things?' It drove me crazy because, in general, I'm ready to play my part. "
Leon Russell
Time
Crazy
Play
" Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work. "
Anne Hathaway
Good Work
Famous
Want
" I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read. "
Neil Strauss
Music
Famous
Boring
" I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous. "
Carole King
Singer
Wanted
Never
" I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. "
Cary Grant
Somebody
Me
Person
" My feet are giving out on me. But I have a wheelchair that folds out on my tour bus. I've also got this little tricycle, so if I want to go someplace, I get those out. "
Leon Russell
Me
Bus
Feet
" Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance. "
Robert Rodriguez
Quick
Run
Way
" I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.' "
Samuel L. Jackson
Walk
Simple
Own
" The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids. "
Danielle Steel
California
Children
Judge
" I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering. "
John le Carre
Know
Not Knowing
Scared
" I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty. "
Dana Carvey
Theory
Famous
Little
" I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it. "
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" In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. "
Norman O. Brown
Money
Long
Famous