Fame quotations

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◆ Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

- James Dean99

◆ Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

- Karl Lagerfeld99

◆ Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

- Russell Brand99

◆ The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

- Frances Ann Lebowitz99

◆ Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

- Erica Jong99

◆ You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

- Jerry Spinelli99

◆ It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

- Robert Benchley99

◆ And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

- Isaac Asimov99

◆ In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

- Lionel Shriver99

◆ I'm an instant star, just add water.

- David Bowie99

◆ I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

- Shirley Temple Black99

◆ Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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