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" I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success. "

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" And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can. "

Tom Felton

Reality

Positive

People

" I have been famous for a long time. "

" In our family, where we began with no money, we like to say that we have discovered that God invented money so those who have it can help others. "

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

" It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. "

" My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it. "

" Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity. "

Marilynne Robinson

Famous

Eyes

" You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. "

Tom Brokaw

Universe

You

" If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special. "

" More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink Orchid.' And still famous today is a thousand-year-old poem from the Tang Dynasty called 'Orchid and Orange.' "

" Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. "

" A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. "

Daniel J. Boorstin

Worth

Celebrity

" 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. "

" Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. "

" I would love to work into my eighties. I don't want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes. "

" I do not like being famous. I like being normal. "

" If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. "

" It was never about winning medals or being famous. "

" The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose. "

" Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much. "

Kim Weston

Famous

Think

" It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor. "

" All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. "

" Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits. "

" Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. "

Robert Wyatt

Less

You

" Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. "

" I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous. "

Anna Kournikova

Beautiful

Gorgeous

" We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this. "

" Celebrity damages private life. "

" There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars. "

" I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking. "