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" If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. "
David Gest
Famous
Wanted
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Zig Ziglar
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" She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head. "
David Gest
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" Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good. "
Laura Linney
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" I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do. "
Linda Ronstadt
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" 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
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" I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person. "
Amanda Bynes
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Feel
" My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. "
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Any
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" For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now. "
Howard Jacobson
Writing
Me
Famous
" I don't know what 'famous' is, really. "
Karl Pilkington
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Know
Really
" I have been famous for a long time. "
Warren Beatty
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Time
Long Time
" It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it. "
Matt LeBlanc
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Funny
" Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work. "
Issey Miyake
Work
Run
Famous
" A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. "
Lauren Bacall
Story
Love
Live
" 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 remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots. "
Seth Rogen
Everyone
Remember
Show
" The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy. "
Justin Timberlake
Worst
Privacy
Famous
" Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. "
Meek Mill
Followers
Instagram
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" Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham. "
Paul Di Filippo
Original
Traditions
Famous
" I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. "
Haruki Murakami
Time
People
My Life
" You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle. "
Wilma Rudolph
Kings
World
Struggle
" All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. "
F. Sionil Jose
Gun
Famous
Who
" And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California. "
Meg Whitman
California
Know
Want
" One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people. "
Kevin Bacon
Live
Know
You
" There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too. "
Sharon Stone
Famous
Being Famous
Good
" I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum. "
Peter O'Toole
Queen
Sunset
Dark
" I was obsessed with being rich and famous. "
Paul Lynde
Being Rich
Obsessed
Rich
" I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal. "
Patrick Rothfuss
You
Cool
Myself
" What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else. "
Chris Pavone
Food
Famous
Life
" I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working. "
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Loved
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" I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. "
Sia
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