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" I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. "
Dave Attell
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" It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything. "
Julie Walters
Life
Wild
Think
" Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice. "
Uzodinma Iweala
Famous
Short
Imagination
" It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around. "
Anita Ekberg
Famous
Around
Other
" On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir. "
Jill Soloway
Lake
Walk
Hot
" Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always. "
Bill Simmons
Wave
Long
Famous
" I'm supposed to be famous, but I don't think I like it so much. "
Caster Semenya
Think
Like
Famous
" I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. "
James Marsh
Words
Water
School
" I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony! "
Fergie
Cheese
Sauce
Green
" We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness. "
Lorde
School
World
Famous
" The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. "
Erica Jong
Cats
Dead
Famous
" I have been famous for a long time. "
Warren Beatty
Famous
Time
Long Time
" I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile. "
Tim O'Brien
Soldiers
Money
Man
" Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen. "
Sean Lennon
Music
Change
Grateful
" It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in! "
Terry Crews
People
Kind
After
" I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time. "
Iyanla Vanzant
Fame
Famous
Hell
" Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day. "
Shemar Moore
People
Social Media
Famous
" Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries. "
Stephen Hawking
Famous
I Am
Sometimes
" I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives. "
Elizabeth Gilbert
People
Famous
Mental Illness
" My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. "
Ma Yansong
Famous
Small
Community
" Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva. "
Meir Soloveichik
Famous
None
More
" I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. "
Sun Myung Moon
Moon
Thought
Famous
" When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here. "
Andrea Hirata
Sports
Famous
Child
" I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine. "
Peter Jackson
Movies
Used
Back
" 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
" I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that. "
Taraji P. Henson
Story
Famous
Jazz
" As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Famous
Believe
Fun
" When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on. "
Tarana Burke
People
Media
Famous
" I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.' "
Carrie Fisher
Rain
Famous
Father
" To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough. "
Ricky Gervais
Not Good Enough
He
Good
" The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. "
J. K. Rowling
Famous
Wanted
Never