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" You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. "

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" No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions. "

" Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on. "

" I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house. "

" I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. "

" As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. "

" I became famous almost before I had a craft. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money. "

" Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it. "

" I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous. "

" There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox. "

" I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. "

" Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices. "

" The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror. "

" You struggle with your demons and you conquer them. "

" It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am. "

" The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace. "

" In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels. "

" Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. "

" Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. "

" I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful. "

Chazz Palminteri

" You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work. "

" I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. "

" Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. "

" How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? "

" Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was. "

" I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory. "

" One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them. "

" Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal. "